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minitech
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Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites
> Relying on third-party, un-audited code was acceptable when the majority of contributors were from the West.
No, it wasn’t. It was always a really bad idea, and it’s been exploited repeatedly since the start.
TheMagicHorsey
5 months ago
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Yeah, maybe, but for the last 20 years there really weren't enough incidents to make it an activity that was too risky to do outside of some really security sensitive applications.
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No, it wasn’t. It was always a really bad idea, and it’s been exploited repeatedly since the start.