wg-best-practices-os-developers VS aper

You will learn about the different checks provided by OpenSSF Scorecard, how to configure the checks for your environment, and how to automate their implementation.

In April 2014, the Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin seized the opportunity to get visibility and managed to get Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Qualcomm, Rackspace, and VMware to all pledge to commit at least $100,000 a year for at least three years to the Core Infrastructure Initiative. The initiative continued for many years and eventually transformed into the Open Source Security Foundation. Also due to Heartbleed, the European Commission launched the EU-Free and Open Source Software Auditing project and spent at least a million euros on auditing OpenSSL, the Apache Server, KeePass, and other security-critical open source software.

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The idea of using `-fsanitize-minimal-runtime` is interesting. I don't have any direct experience with that option. I've created an issue to investigate maybe adding that to the guide. Thanks for the tip!

These are technical details that are out of the scope of this article, but we think that it is important to mention them because the security strategy of a company should be based on a solid foundation, and these frameworks show that there are already some good starting points, companies don't have to start from scratch. If you want to know more about them or other ways to improve the security of your software supply chain, visit the OpenSSF website.

Participating in the cybersecurity community can be a useful way to gain information about security trends and possible risks. Organizations such as the OWASP, OpenSSF, SANS Institute, and ISC2 promote the exchange of information between organizations and can raise the alarm about emerging issues or hacking strategies.

Today corporations, open source projects, nonprofit foundations, and even governments are all trying to figure out how to improve the global software supply chain security. While these efforts are more than welcome, for the moment, there is hardly any straightforward way for organizations to improve on that front.

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The Open Source Security Foundation is the continuation(?) of the group CII that was originally founded after this mess came to light. Can't say anything about the salary, but they're currently hiring for a few positions.

The relevance here is that this post mentions their new Rust library Aper (https://aper.dev/). In addition, CRDTs are a favorite topic of Raph Levien, AKA the Rust GUI guy, and featured in the Xi editor, his first major Rust project (retrospective here: https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.html).

It's also super refreshing to see the work on Aper [1] [2] (a Rust library implementing state machine synchronization across a trusted network). Looking forward next series of articles here!

[1]: https://aper.dev/

[2]: https://github.com/drifting-in-space/aper

Our Aper (https://aper.dev) implements a number of similar concepts (state machine replication with optimistic local transitions + rollback). I 100% agree that it’s an easier model to reason about.

Your approach with cursors is clever, that part I haven’t seen elsewhere.

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We make Jamsocket (https://jamsocket.com/), which allows application developers to spin up and connect to server-side compute. This allows browser-based applications to do computationally-intensive things that are otherwise impossible in the browser.

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