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Go: Can It Mitigate Supply Chain Attacks?

Go: Can It Mitigate Supply Chain Attacks?

Update: 2025-11-02
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/go-can-it-mitigate-supply-chain-attacks.

It is an explicit security design goal of the Go toolchain that neither fetching nor building code will let that code execute, even if it is untrusted.

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All together this means it’s possible to build rich, complex applications with just a handful of dependencies. No matter how good the tooling is, it can’t eliminate the risk involved in reusing code, so the strongest mitigation will always be a small dependency tree.

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Go: Can It Mitigate Supply Chain Attacks?

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