Go library maintainer brands GitHub's Dependabot a 'noise machine'
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A Go cryptography library maintainer urged developers to disable GitHub Dependabot after a minor one-line security fix in filippo.io/edwards25519 triggered thousands of unnecessary PRs and a misleading CVSS v4 score, illustrating the tool’s false-positive noise and its failure to assess whether vulnerable code paths are actually reachable. The maintainer recommends using static analysis (such as govulncheck for Go), manual impact assessment, sandboxed CI testing of updates, and updating dependencies according to project cycles rather than automatically.
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