I enjoyed the recent @joshbressers and @kurtseifried #opensourcesecuritypodcast on govt activities, although I disagree with their conclusion.
We can do a deeper dive into the policies, but I think a lot of it comes down to a core assumption they make, and we haven't: *choice* plays very little role in OSS consumption. I heard this expressed to the point of saying that there is very little agency or decision-making at all.
This is interesting to me, and something that can be (and should be, if it's not) measured.
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2024/07/21/episode-438-cisas-bad-oss-advice-vs-the-whitehouse-good-advice/