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bassie123 • yesterday at 5:07 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

For most things you can put a cooldown period on updates, like wait 7 days, since most of the backdoors and supplychain attacks get caught in that window. I hope.


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hangrybear666 • yesterday at 5:34 PM

Do package managers for Linux distros have this, like dnf/yum/apt/pacman? I use min-release-age =14 for npm now as a default but should start using it everywhere it's possible

hibikir • yesterday at 5:41 PM

Except when there's an actual urgent patch: See recent PHP or Ruby ecosystem updates. Then you are just a sitting duck for a week

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