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Comment by jiggawatts

The source code is not what is deployed.

There is typically no link back from a deployed system to its source, even if you compiled the binary within your organisation.

If it came from an external organisation, things are exponentially harder.

Modern deployment systems are largely "one-way", with no way to trigger a full recompile from the deployment end of things. If you have a VM with "SomeRandomBinary.exe" running on it that has a vulnerability in it, you don't have many options.

IMHO, typical IT as done in the wild suffers from this write-once attitude, where the chain of provenance is too easily broken.

Companies like Google have a very non-typical setup that can be copied only by very small orgs like startups. Typical enterprises look nothing like a startup or a FAANG.

parent jiggawatts 4 years ago

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