About this episode

The episode explores the AUR and discusses the implications of recent malware discoveries within it.

In this episode we deep dive, rather pretentiously into the world of the AUR, and get into the recent bulk discovery of malware in said repository. Some question whether the AUR should exist at all, others believe the AUR is and should be a “wild west” of opportunity, good and[...]

People in this episode

Hosts: Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric

Topics covered

• AUR
• malware
• repository
• technology
• open source
• wild west

Keywords

• AUR
• malware
• repository
• open source
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AUR, malware

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