How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
This is an interesting example of a long-standing problem which is that in general we make use of huge amounts of software and trust our security with it, whilst knowing very little about the security practices of the people developing it.The article makes a good point that it's very hard for small projects, like the team running Homebrew, to fund their security, yet they are likely to be a target for quite high end attackers, given the access that can be gained by getting unauthorised access to package repositories.As a side note it also shows that Jenkins tends to be a tempting target for attackers as it often has access to a wide range of systems to carry out it's functions.