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Summary: Trail of Bits describes how organizations, including the federal government, use open-source projects in security operations and secure development, citing fast deployment without purchasing approval, customization, transparency, and community maintenance as advantages. The firm says the missing piece is expert engineering support, and it offers to select tools, fix bugs, clear technical debt, build new features, review code for malicious content, and maintain the software, organized into three support groups.
Why it matters: The article's own list of open questions - who fixes reported bugs, who builds the needed feature, what happens when breaking changes arrive in a dependency - are the failure modes that land on the team that adopted the tool, and the firm notes it can re-engineer a system entirely when a project is beyond repair.

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Topics: Supply Chain & AppSec
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