This falls under the category, Ban spoons

governments have to routinely publish this article template over and over again.

requiring us to have the same conversation over and over again.

Pay us to respond or react to this repetitive nonsense!

Nope it’s pentesting. Gotta keep up with IT terminology. If the author didn’t intend it, it’s malware.

If any spyware or back doors are found, foss community can quickly deal with it.

This happened with xz, a rogue maintainer snuck in malware which was by chance found. But there would be no chance if it were closed source or talented maintainers were so appreciated by society that they were mourned after starving to death.

Which excludes FOSS maintainers. Who should be well funded to protect our tech stacks from neglect.

Whatever you are scared of.

I’m scared of this more