The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said it will suspend work with Alibaba Cloud as a cybersecurity threat intelligence partner after the firm reported a critical security flaw to Apache.
In short, the Chinese government was very close to having a tool to seriously damage the Western technology infrastructure, without the other side ever knowing where exactly they were being hit from.
I thought of this later, but there is a significant downside with Apache exploit, and that is multiple FOSS projects around the world that are independent of government stuff. Think of the privacy SaaS. What if OVH data centers, on which Lemmy runs, relies on Apache? Or any of the Fediverse networks?
I thought of this later, but there is a significant downside with Apache exploit, and that is multiple FOSS projects around the world that are independent of government stuff. Think of the privacy SaaS. What if OVH data centers, on which Lemmy runs, relies on Apache? Or any of the Fediverse networks?