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by advael 697 days ago
Yea, and use of highly privileged software with the ability to update itself that the organization has no oversight of should be the most suspect. Software is used by nearly every organization for drastically different needs, and I think there will never be adequate security or reliability for any of them if software providers continue to consolidate, generalize, and retain ever more control of their offerings. Personally, I think the solution is local-first software, either open-source or grown within the organizations using them, which necessitates having that capability within orgs. The whole "buy all our infrastructure from some shady vendor" model is a recipe for disaster