--- title: The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source | daily.dev description: A satirical listicle presenting ten elaborate fictional conspiracies about open source software, including claims that Dependabot is a surveillance program,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-top-10-biggest-conspiracies-in-open-source-x2qejq9na twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source | daily.dev og:description: A satirical listicle presenting ten elaborate fictional conspiracies about open source software, including claims that Dependabot is a surveillance program,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-top-10-biggest-conspiracies-in-open-source-x2qejq9na og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/X2qejq9na.png og:image:alt: The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Top 10 Biggest Conspiracies in Open Source **[Andrew Nesbitt](https://daily.dev/sources/nesbitt-io)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A satirical listicle presenting ten elaborate fictional conspiracies about open source software, including claims that Dependabot is a surveillance program, node_modules is a distributed ledger, the left-pad incident was a crypto liquidity operation, Kubernetes was deliberately made complex to create jobs, Git was extracted from Finnish military software, and that only 14 people secretly maintain all major open source projects. Written in a deadpan investigative style with recurring motifs like the number eleven and a Reston, Virginia address, the piece is clearly humorous fiction dressed up as conspiracy theory. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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