I remember a story where people asked about blobs included in Ventoy and there were no comments from the devs, leading to suspicion.
At the time it wasn’t clear to me if there was any substance to the story or if it was the usual Internet exaggeration, so I resolved to ignore it for the time being and saved a reminder to look into it after a while.
Now my reminder fired off and I looked around, but couldn’t find how the story ended… do you know?
That screenshot is from another site. An account named longpanda has also appeared on lemmy and had their post/replies removed because of impersonation suspicions.
I think it is wise to take extra care on this issue on what you read and trust.
I’m in a similar boat to you; whether the blobs constitute a security threat seems to still be up in the air. I read through the issue thread on github a few months back and it seemed the vast majority of the blobs were built by scripts contained in the repository, but some weren’t documented well, leading to uncertainty.
The comment by Long0x0 on Aug 05 lists a lot of the blob files.
Looks like contributor is busy with work. Always the risk with open source. If things aren’t raised in a reasonable manner, I can imagine the temptation is to follow it up with a middle finger.
Many seemed to care about it enough to bash it, but not enough to create and maintain a fork. They just want to boss it over the maintainer.
Not fixed yet. People either quit, let their threat model allow Ventoy’s shellscripts to git-commit bins, or built it from source (i.e. PKGBUILD or ebuild).
I thought one of them did comment about it and it was something like the uefi drivers taken from Fedora or something.
