Re:GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month
by securesaml on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:28PM
(#46621455)
I have seen small utility libraries like tj-actions get compromised because there aren't any security specialists looking at the library.
My main concern is supply chain compromise.
Re:GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month
by ImPostingOnHN on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:56PM
(#46622012)
Unless you're talking about a different event, tj-actions wasn't "compromised because there aren't any security specialists looking at the library". Instead, an API key was used, maybe by the author, maybe by someone else, to replace good code with bad code, including modifying historical release tags to point to the bad code.
That said, everything in my previous post still applies: a nonzero buglist is totally normal and widely accepted.
Re:GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month
by securesaml on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @03:02PM
(#46622141)
I'm not too sure about the root cause about tj-actions. IIRC there are some libraries that compromised by actions injections vulnerabilities, where a security specialist could have helped.
Maybe you're overloaded, maybe you just don't feel like it. It's totally normal, and different projects have different levels of resources, some with none anymore.