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

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

Posted by WP Builds Weekly Podcast on May 18, 2023 at 9:19 am
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

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