[mrtesthah]

1. Don’t outsource 18,000 organizations’ security to the same vendor.

2. Don’t homogenize all the platforms.

3. Reproducible builds; in all likelihood the build server was compromised.

[frongpik]

I like comparing this type of unification with margin trading, in this case with 18000:1 leverage: if stocks go up, you get many multiples of the usual profits, but it takes only a tiny dip in the price to wipe out the account balance.