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Comment by hintymad

12 hours ago

> TiDB, the open-source distributed SQL database powered by PingCAP, today published the results of a rigorous source-code security assessment by NCC Group, one of the world’s leading cybersecurity consultancies.

It looks like you can assess the hell out of your source code, but your system can still leak if you don't secure your operations.

There was a quote from back in early web days that has stuck with me, Still relevant today.

"good opsec will save you from bad crypto. but the converse is not true, good crypto will not save you from bad opsec"