Lead · Risk Identification
No matter how well disguised the new content is, if the hash doesn't match, the alert fires — tool pinning doesn't need to judge maliciousness, only ensure no change slips through unnoticed.
Jordan Blake
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July 31, 2026
The hardest part of dealing with a Rug-Pull Attack isn't how sophisticated the technique is — it's that the attack exploits a structural blind spot in observation: you don't keep watching something you've already confirmed is safe. Once a tool passes initial review, gets written into a commonly-used list, and gets depended on by multiple processes, it shifts from "an object requiring scrutiny"...