• wkk
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      Python with PyPI, C# with Nuget, Docker with Dockerhub, Java with Maven Central, hell even just regular Linux packages from dodgy repositories…

      Supply chain attacks concern almost everything everyone everywhere.

      • moxOP
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        716 days ago

        This is one of the more important reasons to minimize dependencies and be very picky about the ones we adopt.

        • @[email protected]
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          Absolutely this. It almost seems like a controversial opinion sometimes, but microdependencies is a code smell imo. This could largely be improved by providing a more extended standard lib, at the cost of innovation and velocity maybe. I found this interesting: https://blessed.rs/crates

        • @[email protected]
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          IDK about you but the company I work for can’t live without npm packages doing almost everything. For example: the is-even package.

        • @Case
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          I don’t disagree. My last job was using winget to update some things. I raised the concept of trusting otherwise unknown updates, but I was pushed aside for the quick utility.

          I’m only a student of cybersecurity, but I harshly judge my former “security expert” on far more than that.

          Like fuck, the help desk has to install every patch, to every machine, through a spreadsheet?

          No, deploy that shit from a server. Fuck.

          In a way, I’m glad I left. In another way, I would really like a pay check again… and I moved to a well, tech illiterate state. Fuck me.

          • moxOP
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            114 days ago

            My condolences. Unfortunately, people are sometimes designated the in-house expert on a thing just because they seem slightly less ignorant of it than anyone else in the organization. That leaves more than a few people making decisions that impact security and privacy without good understanding or sound judgment in those areas.

            Maybe you should train up and become your state’s new security expert?