The Unseen Crisis in Open Source: When Critical Infrastructure Relies on Unpaid Labour

from blog Jamie Lord, | ↗ original
The recent supply chain attack involving polyfill.io, which affected over 100,000 websites including high-profile entities like JSTOR and the World Economic Forum, has brought to light a critical issue lurking in the shadows of our digital infrastructure: the precarious state of open-source software (OSS) maintenance.