<story><title>Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ohazi</author><text>On a more serious note, I&amp;#x27;m surprised there hasn&amp;#x27;t been much discussion about potential malware in official Linux package repositories vs. developer-centric source repositories like npm, rubygems, crates.io, etc.&lt;p&gt;One would hope that the bar is higher with strict maintainership rules, but there are a zillion packages, and you can&amp;#x27;t vet them all. Also, practically everyone installs binary packages, so until we have fully reproducible builds, hiding malware in some obscure but heavily depended on package could actually be relatively easy.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why GNU/Linux Viruses Are Fairly Uncommon</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>liability</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always sort of suspected there might be a &lt;i&gt;&amp;#x27;don&amp;#x27;t shit where you eat&amp;#x27;&lt;/i&gt; component to it.  If you&amp;#x27;re just being a dick by screwing with people for fun, not profit, then maybe you screw with the windows users instead of your fellow linux users.  Maybe that&amp;#x27;s giving them too much credit though.</text></comment>