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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago
  • Huge growth in tooling and systems making use of "community" dependencies
  • Fewer safeguards and security guarantees and concerns on these platforms
  • Easy entry into these platforms and systems
  • Huge potential scale-effect through global software development tooling
  • Huge additional potential scale effect through developer and development systems - crossing into other such platforms through local credentials, immediate access to internal tooling, platforms, and systems, and potential to attack other downstream systems and platforms
  • Public knowledge about the attack vectors, attack successes and reporting, and continued opportunity, occurrence, and personal successes, investment, and knowledge