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Comment by warrenm

What makes you think a language can mitigate supply chain attacks?

For any arbitrary language you define, I can create a known-bad library and punch it into the download stream

If you want to mitigate supply-chain attacks, you need to look at all of the following (at least!):

- library source

- file-signature

- signature key-verification

- static analysis of library functionality

- processor-dependent rogue behavior detection

- OS-dependent rogue behavior detection

This is not a language problem - this is a source and runtime problem

parent warrenm 5 years ago

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