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Comment by rpdillon

8 hours ago

The dependencies weren't vendored, meaning their behavior can change at any time if a malicious actor gains control of that third-party repo.

This is bad for security.

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trimethylpurine  3 hours ago

Yes, I agree. And it's sadly, as we can see, still fairly standard practice to ignore it.

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