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Re:SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in y... by ryandrake on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @11:51AM (#31181556)
Coming from marine and aerospace contracting, I'm always shocked by the cavalier attitude The Rest Of The Software World has about pulling in third party dependencies. "I have a problem to solve. Let's Google for: [problem] [language]. Aha! This library on GitHub has 12 bajillion stars! Pull that one down, build it, and YOLO!" No in-depth look into what other things the dependency does, how it increases the attack surface, what user data it gobbles up, what license it uses, what is the update cadence and how often do we need to pull from upstream, what is the contingency plan if it ends up not being suitable, nothing. Just git push and close that JIRA ticket!

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