Following the White House's open-source security summit, Google proposes setting up an organization to serve as a marketplace for open source maintenance
to ensure national infrastructure and other important systems can rely on open source projects.” https://blog.google/... Kent Walker / @kent_walker : Open source software is the connective tissue for much of what we all do online, and it deserves the same focus and funding we give to our roads and bridges. Today we shared with @WhiteHouse some of our ideas for protecting open source security. https://blog.google/... Phil Venables / @philvenables : Pleased to partner with The White House and other agencies and companies at today's summit on making Open Source software safer and more secure. https://blog.google/...
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Discussion
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@ncdinglis
Chris Inglis
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#log4j has highlighted the need to improve our software security and the transparency of our software supply chain. Enjoying the discussion with @WHNSC and leading open source project managers about how to bring coherence to federal efforts to increase software resilience.
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@thomasortk
Thomas Kurian
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Proud to continue our work with the Biden Administration to strengthen cybersecurity across public and private sectors through critical areas like open source software. Today, we had the opportunity to discuss this and more with the @WhiteHouse. https://twitter.com/...
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@robleathern
Rob Leathern
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Important to discuss how we evolve security models in the aftermath of #Log4j - @Google joined the White House Open Source Software Security Summit today to offer proposals for better public/private sector support of the open source ecosystem https://twitter.com/...
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@mrchrisadams
Chris Adams
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This would be like exclusively inviting the owners of private hospitals to a meeting about public health issues - large corps capturing disproportionate amounts of the value compared to what gets shared back to the commons is a huge part of the problem right now. https://twitter.…
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@cra
Chris Aniszczyk
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looking forward to seeing the F500/G2000 follow suit with efforts like this, not just the hyper scalers who have been contributing and using open source for decades https://twitter.com/...
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@pikhq
@pikhq
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y'know the funny thing about this? ... they're asking everyone but the people that fucking write the software in question. i mean, they're not even talking to an ASF rep, never mind the log4j devs https://twitter.com/...
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@mrisher
Mark Risher
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Coming out of White House Open Source Software Security Summity (WHOSSSS?): 3 key points summarized by @Kent_Walker @Google 1) Identify critical projects (e.g. via SLSA) 2) Standardize security baselines (ditto) 3) Fund security fixits (no free lunch) https://blog.google/...
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@ronamadeo
Ron Amadeo
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I can't believe they didn't post the XKCD comic. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@di_codes
Dustin Ingram
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“It's time for industry and government to come together to establish baseline standards for security, maintenance, provenance, and testing — to ensure national infrastructure and other important systems can rely on open source projects.” https://blog.google/...
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@sundarpichai
Sundar Pichai
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Securing the open source software ecosystem is a critical step in keeping people and their information safe online. Glad we could share recommendations with the @WhiteHouse and others as part of our ongoing partnership to strengthen cybersecurity. https://blog.google/...
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@kent_walker
Kent Walker
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Open source software is the connective tissue for much of what we all do online, and it deserves the same focus and funding we give to our roads and bridges. Today we shared with @WhiteHouse some of our ideas for protecting open source security. https://blog.google/...
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@philvenables
Phil Venables
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Pleased to partner with The White House and other agencies and companies at today's summit on making Open Source software safer and more secure. https://blog.google/...