> I’m increasingly fatalistic about computer security. It seems like your options are carefully auditing all dependencies (difficult and maybe impossible if the dependencies are highly technical or the malicious code is sufficiently subtle or obfuscated) every time you update, not updating at all (which leaves you vulnerable to all the bugs and other security issues in the version you choose to pin), or not using dependencies at all (by spending months or years totally rewriting the libraries and tools you need, and of course your own code will have bugs too).

There is also the option of having trusted third parties review code. This is by no means an easy option but it does seem more feasible than everyone auditing every line of code they ever depend on. You do end up with spicy questions like who do we trust to audit code? Why do we trust them? How are they actually auditing this code?