Weird goo that was grown in a lab by people that have no idea what they're doing OR natural food we've been eating since the dawn of time.
It's rarely talked about, but you gotta imagine, the fact the US controls most of the land and sea is a big factor in how diplomatic issues are resolved.
I don't think this is a great thing, btw.
They do so with the help of allies which they seem to forget.
So the question is, once your corporate mega machine has become this efficient what do you even do next?
Exactly. Private corporations that adhere to US law and have demonstrated that they don't operate in good faith.
Each country should control official channels of communication.
E.g. if this was about storing monetary data, this would never have happened.
That becomes apparent if you ever had any issue with a google product. There's no way to resolve issues outside of canned answers from "AI" systems and public forums.
I absolutely feel for his situation. Right now, the degree to which he could be threatened into allowing a malicious group to push changes in his name should not be taken lightly. Hopefully this article reaches the attention of some of the CISOs at companies who rely on the project, and a path towards a situation where multiple parties have visibility into release management can be explored. And honestly, such a solution might be the best thing to make Denis and his family less of a target.
(In the meantime, pin your core-js dependency, and track https://security.snyk.io/vuln/npm?search=core-js as well as npm audit. Arguably there should be an advisory category for known vulnerable maintenance situation - I'm not sure if such a registry exists. One might say that every open source project is vulnerable in some way, but there's nuance and splash radius to consider here, and core-js does not have much defense-in-depth at the moment.)