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How Docker was born (lemmy.ml)
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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They worry about someone replacing the docker image on the hosting server with a malicious modified version for people to pull down during updates.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This worry exists for literally every 3rd party dependency, not just docker, and is addressed the same way - by running tests and vulnerability scans in a sandboxed test environment before shipping to prod

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I was just answering a question. I had the same response above.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

And I was just adding extra details