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Open source complacency about auditing and real vulnerability report floods

March 31, 2026Andrew Thompson, Thomas H. Ptacek

Andrew Thompson argues open source ideology can create complacency about audits, while Thomas H. Ptacek says a major open source project shifted from low-quality reports to being flooded with real vulnerability reports. The theme is scaling review and triage.

It's not even a new revelation that open source ideology led to a sense of complacency about whether or not code is audited.
"Of course someone's checking; it's open source!"
Most important open source project, went from slop reports to drowning in real vulnerability reports:
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