327 - Thinking the unthinkable (TTUT). Episode 8: Is open source a liability?

May 18, 2023 00:46:00
327 - Thinking the unthinkable (TTUT). Episode 8: Is open source a liability?
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327 - Thinking the unthinkable (TTUT). Episode 8: Is open source a liability?

May 18 2023 | 00:46:00

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Show Notes

On this 8th episode of "Thinking the Unthinkable" we are asking “is ‘open source’ a liability? This was prompted by a 2021 incident. A zero-day attack called Log4Shell that affected major players like Microsoft and Cloudflare. It's a chat about risk assessment really. Lots of levels with WordPress’ LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL). It seems quite remarkable that WordPress has worked so well for 20 years. So how do we 'sell' free, open source solutions to our clients, when most of them are from a world in which you need to pay for all-the-things?

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