> The Chat Control 1.0 rule is simply that organisations like Meta are allowed to scan messages if they want to. In other words your Facebook messages are not private from Facebook. Surely we already knew and expected that.
Actually, I would expect the EU to limit the ways in which these platforms can access private messages as much as technically possible. That's the only thing that would be in line with recent privacy legislation.
How is it rational? What's going to stop a different We Stop Really Bad Guys NGO from showing up next. Corporations are perfectly capable of not getting involved when they don't want to.
The arch team seems to think differently based on how they reacted to the compromise. Something doesn't have to be locked down from the start in order to be compromised.
I don't think that categorization is warranted - at least the linked announcement doesn't give any indication that the guy joined with the intent to cause trouble and its only after his friend got in trouble that he misused the access he had. No amount of vetting can prevent something like that entirely and only disconnected backups (thanks, git) will help you in the end.
> If anything, I think it's a bigger organizational red flag that they agreed to privately host their source code on some random git forge and not a larger, more communal one.
Did they agree to it? The linked post only says that it was offered and being discussed.
> even if they didn't want to use GitHub (did this even cost money for them)
Money is hardly the only reason why an open source project could have a problem with using GitHub.
If your goal is what to have parents decide what their kids can read then the only way to do that is to have the shared (e.g. school) library carry the commonly agreed upon subset and individual parents who want their kids to have access to more to provide those more controversial book at home. The only reason to call to have books other parents don't want their kids to be exposed to in the school library is if you want to override their choice and make those books available to kids other than yours as well.
Maybe many other languages were already covered by "inst" due to common language roots or just straight up borrow "setup" or "installer" from English because there was no established localized term.