The hardest fork
The article discusses the challenges posed by emerging threats in the open source software ecosystem. It highlights the difficulties in regulating these threats and the inadequacies of the current consumption model of open source software. The author emphasizes the need for a coordinated approach to vulnerability disclosure to effectively manage risks.
- ▪The author believes that the current state of open source software consumption is fundamentally broken.
- ▪Washington is struggling to regulate emerging threats in the open source ecosystem.
- ▪The article calls for a coordinated vulnerability disclosure system to support software maintainers.
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All articlesMay 28, 2026The hardest forkDan Lorenc, Co-founder and CEOMythos is real. I know a big chunk of the industry thinks it's a marketing stunt, and I get why. I get it. But I've seen the findings, and they're bad. These aren't "whoops, this line right here is wrong, and that's RCE." They're novel combinations of a few dozen issues out of thousands of things every SAST scanner already finds, chained together into something much worse. It's real creativity, like Move 37. That's not a better scanner. That's a different category of threat.In some ways, it doesn't even matter. Even if this specific model were a hoax, the capability is coming regardless. Some days, I wish it were a hoax. We'd have more time. But you can believe me or not.
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