Attention about the Fedora Magazine article that elaborates this case: The article contained misleading information and still indicates misleading points after its update: If you have any F40 - including Beta - your “testing” branches are enabled by default: this means, any F40 has to be assumed to be affected and thus needs to follow the advice for mitigation below (please read the update 3 below). Communications between development and the magazine unfortunately is broken at the moment. The x...
And the one main issue with FOSS rears its ugly head – freedom of contribution also means freedom of bad contributions.
This happens in close source software too. You just don’t find out about it until it gets bad enough.