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Any software that depends on open source has a network of humans with package publishing rights who are potential attack vectors.

Drawn from what Simon Willison said

Subjectsopen sourcecybersecurity
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cybersecurity Attack and defence in software: vulnerabilities, hardening, and what changes when a model is good at finding them.

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  1. Simon Willison

    Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette

    Any piece of software that depends on open source (which is almost every piece of software) has a network of human beings who are potential attack vectors - everyone with publishing rights to any of the packages in the dependency network for that software.

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    ↗Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceanssimonwillison.net

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