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AI Engineer · August 7, 2026

Open Source Is Dead. Long Live Open Source. — Saoud Rizwan, Cline

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Why it matters

A compromised release of litellm, a Python package pulling three and a half million downloads a day, sat live for three hours installing a credential harvester for API keys, SSH keys and crypto keys along with a backdoor for remote command execution.

My takeaway: Open Source Is Dead. Long Live Open Source. — Saoud Rizwan, Cline is a threat-intelligence signal. The practical read is to connect the incident back to AI-adjacent software, developer tooling, and automation paths that need ordinary security controls.
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