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Log4j Vulnerability: Why Your Hot Take on It Is Wrong


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Do not celebrate silly hot takes that try to reduce the Log4j problem to one thing. Security is complicated. Software is complicated.

Don't use the Log4j problem to start banging the drum of "open source sustainability" crises. Open source isn't a security problem, and open source sustainability is a complicated issue.

Instead, it's time to "accept the reality of bugs/outages; do the best that we can to mitigate, learn, and improve; and wait for the next one."

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