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Re:Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites by kelsey98765431 on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:21AM (#40801059)
One has to admit the game of cat and mouse that the web browser brought about has been quite valuable for advancing security as a field, unfortunately this sort of thing seems like we have to get burned to learn the pan is hot and mother warning us is not enough.

Pay your security teams more, people.

Re:Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites by mulmen on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:49AM (#40801367)
Security is everyone’s job. You can’t outsource responsibility. The security tram should be compensated fairly but they should also be trusted within the organization. If you want to build secure software then realign incentives. There’s more to that than pay.
Re:Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites by emporas on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:22PM (#40801674)
> Security is everyone’s job.

Agree. There is something missing from the internet, and that is "Programmer Citizenship". As soon as someone pushes code to a repo, he has to prove his citizenship first, the good old fashioned way by handing his identity to the owner of the repo. His digital identity of course.

As long as the identity is real, and is associated with a clean reputation, then code can be accepted with very little risk. When the reputation might not be so great, then new code has to be double checked before any merge into main.

Re:Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites by emporas on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @12:24PM (#40801684)
> One has to admit the game of cat and mouse that the web browser brought about

Supply chain attacks can affect any toolchain, command line tools, games, everything under the sun.