Open Source Backdoor Mental Gymnastics

Text on the meme

PROPRIETARY BACKDOOR MENTAL GYMNASTICS I want a backdoor in this software I ask the corpo to grant me access OPEN SOURCE BACKDOOR MENTAL GYMNASTICS find not well maintained related project spend 5 years gaining the maintainer trust Insert brittle system to introduce vulnerability Immediately get noticed by an autist due to 0.5s startup delay

What it means

A two-part stick-figure comic contrasts getting a proprietary software backdoor by asking the corporation with secretly introducing a vulnerability into an open-source project. The joke is that the open-source route requires years of gaining a maintainer’s trust, only for a technically observant user to notice the resulting 0.5-second startup delay. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to elaborate supply-chain attacks and absurdly complicated plans.

Objects

green stick figures / зелёные человечки platform / платформа trampoline / батут gymnastics rings / гимнастические кольца horizontal bar / турник chair / стул computer monitor / компьютерный монитор burning car / горящая машина flames / пламя backdoor / бэкдор software / программное обеспечение vulnerability / уязвимость startup delay / задержка запуска