Google's open source team layoffs: Your software supply chain security is at risk

Google has laid off many leading lights of the open source world. This will have a profound effect on software supply chain security.

One of the many people fired was Chris DiBona (pictured). Until January 20, he was Google’s director of open source, holding the position since 2004.

Patronage from firms such as Google was key to funding security-critical open source projects — for example, BoringSSL/Tink, Samba and Kubernetes, to name but three. In this week’s Secure Software Blogwatch, …

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