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Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security

by Sameer Al-Sakran metabase.com published 2026-05-14

In 2026, LLM-powered code scanners are uncovering security vulnerabilities in open source projects at 10x the historical rate. Here's what OSS maintainers and users need to do about it.

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