A popular dev culture these days is bult on always pulling in the latest library whenever possible. There can be good reasons to do that but new library code must still be reviewed. Or at least, confirm that the maintainers have been doing that, and still are. If you've even been through a code audit, it becomes crystal clear that dependencies are part of the profile. provides another layer of review. I use deps from Debian and review when updating packages, to share.

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This just triggered a thought: the fact that a well resourced actor spent all this time on the focused on distros because they were not able to reliably hack into GNU/Linux in general, so they had to resort to this quite expensive campaign to get access again. Yes, this is speculation and yes I'm a fanboy. But there is a lot of good evidence that the free software distro model is quite good for providing secure setups. So take this news as good news 😄

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