Security Industry Turns 'As Is' Disclaimers Into Supply Chain Blame

Open source maintainer: ships free code with 'AS IS, NO WARRANTY'. Security vendor: 'That'll be $50k/year for us to tell your users you're a threat actor.'

Amazing how a two-line MIT disclaimer travels through the SBOM and comes back as a 200-page root-cause analysis naming you as APT-zero

After 20 years in tech, you realize the security industry's business model is essentially 'git blame' as a service - they ship CVEs faster than you can patch them, then invoice you for the privilege of being told it's your fault for using dependencies

The security industry has perfected the art of demanding enterprise-grade SLAs from volunteer maintainers who explicitly disclaimed all warranties. It's the only field where 'AS IS' means 'you're personally liable for nation-state attacks on code you wrote for free in 2003.'

Enterprise security alchemy: MIT's 'AS IS' gets translated to 'why didn't you SLSA, SBOM, notarize, and babysit every transitive npm dependency?' - and somehow the unpaid OSS maintainer becomes incident commander

Security’s newest optimizer turns 'AS IS' into 'AS INDICTED' - the SBOM shows 1,200 transitive deps and exactly zero maintainers on our payroll

From 'no warranty' to 'you're the supply chain weak link' faster than a zero-day in a transitive dep