Pinning

Josh and Kurt talk about the binary nature of security. Many of our ideas are yes or no, there’s not much in the middle. The conversation ends up derailed due to a Twitter thread about pinning dependencies. This gives you an idea how contentious of a topic pinning is. The final takeaway is not to let security turn into your identity, it ends up making a mess. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_317_The_lack_of_compromise_in_security.mp3 Show Notes Josh’s Twitter thread How to install week old npm packages

Earlier today I asked a question on Twitter Holy cow that thread took on a life of its own. The question is easy enough, do we have any security data on pinning vs not pinning dependencies? We don’t, I know this, but I was hoping someone was working on something (I don’t think they are). But during the thread I also think I figured how to be start collecting this data. That’s a post for the future. ...