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I've had fun in the past with external auditors¹ who don't really understand what their automated tools are telling them. If the tool reports a version that is
by dspillett 4y ago
I've had fun in the past with external auditors¹ who don't really understand what their automated tools are telling them. If the tool reports a version that is no longer supported upstream we have trouble convincing them that it is fine as what we have is a well tested version² with all the security fixes they might be concerned about back-ported³ into it.
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[1] we provide SASS services to companies regulated industries, like investment banks, they have a high level of monitoring required which includes auditing the security of suppliers like us
[2] possibly more so than the latest upstream version
[3] or even not needed at all because the bug was introduced in a feature that wasn't back-ported