How Much Should the Federal Government Worry About Log4j?

There is an old fable that talks about the circle of life in the plains of Africa where every morning a gazelle wakes up and knows that it must run faster than the lion or it will be eaten. The current Apache log4j remote shell execution (RCE) exploit that is playing out during the writing of this blog post is a stark example of how that fable has some truth to it. I think a more realistic truth would change …

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