Episode 375 – The market forces of left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 2

Josh and Kurt finish up the leftpad discussion. We spent a lot of time talking about how the market will respond to these sort of events, and the market did indeed speak; very little has changed. There is an aspect of all these security events where we need to understand the cost vs benefit justContinue reading “Episode 375 – The market forces of left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 2”

Episode 374 – The event we called left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 1

Josh and Kurt revisit Episode 77, which was named “npm and the supply chain” but was a discussion about the incident we all know now as “leftpad”. We didn’t understand what was happening at the time, but this would become an event we talk about for years to come. It’s shocking how many of theContinue reading “Episode 374 – The event we called left-pad, Episode 77 remaster part 1”