<p dir="auto"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@joshbressers" rel= "nofollow">Josh</a> and <a href= "https://infosec.exchange/@kurtseifried" rel="nofollow">Kurt</a> talk about the way Wordpress vets their plugins. While Wordpress has been in the news lately, they do some clever things to get plugins approved. There's a static analyzer that runs against new submissions. We discuss using static analysis, securing open source, contributing and more.</p> Show Notes <ul dir="auto"> <li><a href= "https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-2.6p-Faster-Scale-Patch" rel= "nofollow">Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch</a></li> <li><a href= "https://github.com/kurtseifried/wordpress-plugin-sitemap2rss">Kurt's Plugin</a></li> </ul>

Episode 456 - What if XZ happened to a company? The openness of open source

Open Source Security is a media project to help showcase and educate on open source security. Our goal is to give the community a platform educate both developers and users on how open source security works.

There's a lot of good work happening that doesn't get attention because there's no marketing department behind it, they don't have a developer relations team posting on LinkedIn every two hours. Let's focus on those people and teams then learn what they do and how they do it. The goal is to hear from the people doing the work, they know what's up, they have a lot to teach us. We just have to listen.