Podcasts Technology Post Status Podcasts Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) Trust and Distrust: Microagressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security

Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) Trust and Distrust: Microagressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security

Published: Oct. 7, 2022, 2:05 p.m.

b'In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Dan and Ny take on three issues in the WordPress community that can threaten or impair trust while also revealing how foundational trust is: 1) racism, 2) the removal of the active install growth chart from the WordPress.org plugin repository, and 3) emerging US federal policy that aims to secure open source software. Zero-trust architecture might work well for networked machines, but human relationships and communities need trust.'