Kretschmann: The Malware Problem (and a solution)

Kretschmann: The Malware Problem (and a solution): "Amarok hacker Mark Kretschmann looks at the recent malware hidden in a GNOME screen saver. As he points out, it certainly isn't a GNOME-specific problem, as the same thing could happen to KDE and other projects. He and Ian Monroe came up with a way to help alleviate the problem by requiring public version control for Amarok scripts. 'With a VCS [version control system], it's very easy to tell who inserted Malware, and when this person did this. This fact alone would provide some accountability, and I think it might prevent a good deal of attempts of messing around with the code. And even if it happened anyway, it would be trivial to revert the change, and we would just ban the person who did this from ever committing to this repository again.'"