The Comforting Lie of SHA Pinning

(vaines.org)

15 points | by chillax 3 days ago ago

5 comments

  • rcxdude 3 days ago

    This 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 3 days ago

    TFA 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 3 days ago

      Skip is british term for dumpster.

  • sh-cho 3 days ago

    GitHub 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 3 days ago

    Wow. I did not know this. I'll bring it up in my organization.