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The Effectiveness of Security Interventions on GitHub. (arXiv:2309.04833v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)
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In 2017, GitHub was the first online open source platform to show security
alerts to its users. It has since introduced further security interventions to
help developers improve the security of their open source software. In this
study, we investigate and compare the effects of these interventions. This
offers a valuable empirical perspective on security interventions in the
context of software development, enriching the predominantly qualitative and
survey-based literature landscape with substantial data-driven insights. We
conduct a time series analysis …
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