Open Source Powers the World. The Axios Hack Showed the Cost | Feross Aboukhadijeh, Socket CEO

Feross Aboukhadijeh is the founder and CEO of Socket, a software supply chain defense company whose customers include Anthropic, Figma, and Vercel. Last month his team flagged the Axios backdoor six minutes after it hit npm. He was also personally targeted by the same North Korean group behind the attack. In just 15 minutes, Feross walks through the Axios backdoor and the social engineering that made it work, how Socket now reads every line of code across 19 open source ecosystems using AI, why open source has become critical infrastructure without the institutional support to match, and why trusting external code just got a lot more expensive.Most podcasts are an hour or more. This is 10 Minutes or Less by. Feross is the Founder/CEO of Socket. • X: https://x.com/feross • LinkedIn:   / feross   • Website: https://feross.org • Socket: https://socket.dev Ali is the cofounder/GP at Outset Capital. • LinkedIn:   / ali-rohde-90719970   • X: https://x.com/RohdeAli • Website: https://alirohde.com • Outset Capital: https://outsetcapital.com