Every serious software product runs on code that someone else wrote and released for free. A web service leans on a cryptography library, a data pipeline pulls in a parser, and a mobile app ships a handful of small utilities that one person maintains in spare time. All of it carries the same label. A new paper argues that the single label hides differences large enough to change how each piece behaves once it lands … More → The post The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer appeared first on Help Net Security .