xkcd: Dependency

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2347: Dependency - explain xkcd

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Some random person in Nebraska Is the reference to a random person in Nebraska totally arbitrary, or is it a reference to someone in particular? Also, it would be good to have examples of heavily used projects with very small (especially one person) maintainer teams. OpenSSL definitely comes to mind, from what I have read.

2347: Dependency | xkcd.fyi

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[The blocks rest on larger blocks lower down in the image, finally on a single large block. This is balanced on top of a set of blocks on the left, and on the right, a single tiny block placed on its side. This one is labeled:] A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003

xkcd 2347: Dependency : r/xkcd - Reddit

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xkcd 2347: Dependency turns out to be true, and the developer ... - Reddit

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Basically there's a lot of people who maintain critical software that much of the world relies on (directly or indirectly). But because these people keep on doing the thankless job of maintaining the software, it continues to work and nobody notices that there's only one person in nebraska without whom half of the internet is at risk.

The Joke on Someone in Nebraska - Security Boulevard

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The joke mentioned here is just a small sample of a big dependency issue in the global digital infrastructure, about which we need to raise awareness.

Dependency - xkcd

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Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble.

Dependencies - xkcd

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The joke on someone in Nebraska | Fluid Attacks

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I once read or heard somewhere something to the effect that, in the digital world, there are many fundamental problems with structure and security to which we don't pay enough attention. It was precisely this statement one of those that ignited in the recesses of my memory when I first saw the joke about someone in Nebraska, around which this blog post revolves: "Dependency." Comic #2347 on xkcd.

The Nebraska Problem in Open Source Software Development

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The Nebraska problem is a term coined by this author. The idea for this was inspired by episode #2347! of xkcd, a web comic by Randall Munroe that is popular with hackers. Figure 1. Dependency (Munroe, n.d.)
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