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report:3645:titlearXiv — Cryptography & Security (cs.CR) recorded this headline on Aug 24, 2026. No lawful structured evidence is available yet to explain the underlying event.
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source-authored · cleanedarXiv:2608.20678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Practitioners evaluating open-source dependencies rely on cheap trust signals, e.g., stars, download counts, and contributor activity, as substitutes for direct code inspection, assuming those signals reflect genuine trustworthiness. Prior work has documented individual signal gaming, but the landscape of collapses across all dependency-adoption signals, as well as the ecosystem's response, remains unexplored. The goal of this study is to aid software practitioners in understanding the reliability of dependency adoption trust signals, such as dow
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