Linux admins,

Open-source software now sits underneath almost everything: cloud infrastructure, development pipelines, monitoring stacks, and production workloads. Most environments rely on thousands of third-party packages that they never fully audit.

That changes how trust works. Attackers increasingly target the software supply chain itself through compromised maintainers, malicious updates, poisoned dependencies, and build pipeline abuse.

In fast-moving Linux environments built around automation and rapid deployment, software installation becomes more than deployment. It becomes an inherited trust.

Yours in Open Source

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Dave Wreski, Founder

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