The Trail of Bits podcast explores the intersection of human intellect and computational power. Imagine having a couple of friends explain to you how they protect some of the world’s most precious data - friends who happen to be the world’s leading cyber security experts, and who know how to speak in plain, straightforward English. That’s what each episode of the Trail of Bits podcast is like. The only ads you’ll ever hear are for our free and open source software and tools.
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The Trail of Bits podcast explores the intersection of human intellect and computational power. Imagine having a couple of friends explain to you how they protect some of the world’s most precious data - friends who happen to be the world’s leading cyber security experts, and who know how to speak in plain, straightforward English. That’s what each episode of the Trail of Bits podcast is like. The only ads you’ll ever hear are for our free and open source software and tools.
Most people imagine software engineers tapping keyboards in a kombucha-keg filled room. But modern software isn’t written... It’s assembled. Developers write code, but they don't start from scratch - They use open-source code and libraries, developed by a community. Those building blocks are themselves dependent on other pieces of open-source software, which are built atop yet others, and so on. The dependencies of this software supply chain are therefore recursive - ‘nested,’ like a Russian Matryoshka doll. So you ask whether your software is safe, the answer is, "It Depends."
Trail of Bits
The Trail of Bits podcast explores the intersection of human intellect and computational power. Imagine having a couple of friends explain to you how they protect some of the world’s most precious data - friends who happen to be the world’s leading cyber security experts, and who know how to speak in plain, straightforward English. That’s what each episode of the Trail of Bits podcast is like. The only ads you’ll ever hear are for our free and open source software and tools.
