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by mikemcquaid 2719 days ago
> not answering a simple yes or no question

Here you go:

> Do you have published security reviews of your infrastructure?

Beyond https://hackerone.com/homebrew/hacktivity, https://brew.sh/2018/08/05/security-incident-disclosure/: no.

> Otherwise you're asking us to just trust you.

Yes.

> it's not clear who has access to it

A subset of the documented Homebrew maintainers who manage our ops/infrastructure.

> such as who reviews the commits

The maintainers and additional trusted users.

> the precautions taken by bintray to prevent and detect tampering with packages

packages require a manual publishing step, are checksummed and frozen on their CDN a while after publishing.

> most formula pull requests need to be reviewer but does not go over what this entails

This is part of the on boarding and training of new maintainers.

> Is there a set of maintainers who handle security sensitive formula, like openssl, gnupg, and tor?

Not a specific set but they receive extra time, review and attention to their source URLs.

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