The Comforting Lie of SHA Pinning(vaines.org)

15 pointsby chillaxvor 4 Monaten5 comments

https://www.vaines.org/posts/2026-03-24-the-comforting-lie-of-sha-pinning/

5 comments

rcxdudevor 3 Monaten

This has been a big security/UX issue with github for a while. It extends to the web interface: you can link to a specific commit under an official github repo but the contents of the README on the page will be from a malicious fork, which makes it way easier to make links look legitimate.

quuxplusonevor 3 Monaten

TFA writes: "Late last year NPM was basically a skip fire" — is this an idiom I should know? (Something like a misfire?) Or a typo for "ship fire"? Or something else?

rcxdudevor 3 Monaten

Skip is british term for dumpster.

sh-chovor 3 Monaten

GitHub needs to support 'Immutable Release' on GitHub Actions, as soon as possible. Other methods are just workaround and easy to break just like example on the post.

nathan_douglasvor 4 Monaten

Wow. I did not know this. I'll bring it up in my organization.