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WhyNotHugo • yesterday at 10:31 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Provenance attestation is about security compliance, not real security. At a big organisation, you can check off compliance check-boxes because you're using Microsoft's big hosted service.

For regular developers, provenance makes no difference; whether the package was made in a box controlled by Microsoft with a proprietary stack or on a box controlled by the developer make no difference.