The Comforting Lie of SHA Pinning(vaines.org)
13 points by chillax 14 hours ago | 5 comments
- rcxdude 2 hours agoThis has been a big security/UX issue with github for a while. It extends to the web interface: you can link to a specific commit under an official github repo but the contents of the README on the page will be from a malicious fork, which makes it way easier to make links look legitimate.
- quuxplusone 4 hours agoTFA writes: "Late last year NPM was basically a skip fire" — is this an idiom I should know? (Something like a misfire?) Or a typo for "ship fire"? Or something else?[-]
- rcxdude 2 hours agoSkip is british term for dumpster.
- sh-cho 6 hours agoGitHub needs to support 'Immutable Release' on GitHub Actions, as soon as possible. Other methods are just workaround and easy to break just like example on the post.
- nathan_douglas 7 hours agoWow. I did not know this. I'll bring it up in my organization.