Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

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The sabotaged versions produce an endless string of illegible text.

Two days after pushing the corrupt update to faker.js, Squires later sent out a tweet noting he’s been suspended from GitHub, despite storing hundreds of projects on the site. Judging by the changelog on both faker.js and colors.js, however, it looks like his suspension has already been lifted. Squires introduced the faker.js commit on January 4th, got banned on January 6th, and didn’t introduce the “liberty” version of colors.js until January 7th.

Squires’ bold move draws attention to the moral — and financial — dilemma of open-source development, which was likely the goal of his actions. A massive number of websites, software, and apps rely on open-source developers to create essential tools and components — all for free.

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