> I lay any blame squarely at the feet of IT security of large organisations that were entirely unprepared to update a widely used dependency that wasn't an operating system or a runtime. This wasn't just a predictable scenario, it was predicted. Or more accurately, it has occurred already repeatedly in the NPM ecosystem, but for some mysterious reason those incidents were simply ignored by security teams world wide. Instead of chilling them to the bone, they simply shrugged their shoulders and said "Well, we don't use NPM... I think. Probably?" and went on with their paper-pushing or whatever it is CISOs do these days.
I think this attitude is one of the main issues for this kind of incidents in larger organisations. I'm not sure why you would be willing to lay blame at your colleagues for this.
Most of the time, development teams don't tend to like some governance over the code and the dependencies they are pulling in. Not just because they know of course what they are doing, but also because they are under pressure to deliver features. That is what matters for business.
Also, convincing management that budget is needed for correct tooling to track all stuff deployed; is also not as straight forward as you seem to suggest.
In this case, the problem goes even beyond just the code of your own dev teams. This is embedded in countless software packages deployed all over your organisation. Same here, people want to buy and use whatever they want. And all processes to keep some form of control over it, are mostly seen as overhead.
And I'm sure they are lots of "security" people who are just producing documents and policies which are complete detached from reality. But developers who consider security completely as somebody else his responsibility, are a problem as well.
The only good think I see coming from this mess, is that security teams probably will get the means to try to get more control and insight over this. For the coming weeks/months at least. After that, everyone in management of dev will be forgotten about it. But something tells me the security people who are working on this right now, won't.
I don't understand these comments suggesting this article is anti-python. I won't say it is the opposite. But the repo is literally stating the goal is to "Exploring and understanding Python through surprising snippets.". And I totally agree that analysing and trying to understand what is actually going on, when the language is behaving in a slightly unexpected way, is a great way to learn.
So see this as a resource for people who want to learn, not for people with an “anti-python sentiment” (whatever that even means).