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Hey, I'm building an on prem solution and had a question regarding this. Would it still be a problem if the third party was someone like segment whose open source analytics library you're using? https://github.com/segmentio/analytics.js



Their problem was third party scripts and you are asking if a third party is okay? Am I missing something here?


Well from what I understand it's that third party scripts are a problem because they may behave maliciously and gain access to parts of the application. If the third party script is an open source project, doesn't that mitigate this?


Doesn't prevent a malicious/compromised third party from serving code other than what's in the source. I think an acceptable mitigation might be subresource integrity though, so you can lock it to a known-good version of a script?




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