That's what foreign nation states do. Every cycle.
Exclusive: Russian Hackers Attacked the 2008 Obama Campaign
On the other end of the spectrum it would be extremely unlikely a small closed source dev team would ever discover they had been successfully exploited. We can't even rely on FBI agents to behave professionally and show no bias on the cases they're working. Why would a traditionally liberal dev team working out of Redmond or Silicon Valley be any different?
That's what foreign nation states do. Every cycle.
[Exclusive: Russian Hackers Attacked the 2008 Obama Campaign](https://www.newsweek.com/russia-hacking-trump-clinton-607956)
On the other end of the spectrum it would be extremely unlikely a small closed source dev team would ever discover they had been successfully exploited. We can't even rely on FBI agents to behave professionally and show no bias on the cases they're working. Why would a traditionally liberal dev team working out of Redmond or Silicon Valley be any different?
i view corporations as far more trustworthy than foreign nations. there needs to be better review policies and what-not, but open source? too far, too decentralized for something so important. it'll be a ticking timebomb until someone stuxnets an election.