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Why container security feels like archaeological guesswork

I keep getting security alerts about vulnerabilities in dependencies that are five layers deep in our container images and I have no idea what those packages even do or if updating them will break everything.

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Layered abstraction creates security responsibilities for code paths that exceed human comprehension.

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