Feross
feross.bsky.social
Feross
@feross.bsky.social
🧙‍♂️ Mad scientist • ✨ Founder + CEO @Socket.dev (http://socket.dev) •🌲 Stanford lecturer (http://cs253.stanford.edu) • ❤️ Open source at WebTorrent + StandardJS
January 7, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Agree
January 7, 2026 at 6:57 PM
That’s right, and originally from Stanford’s CS253 course! web.stanford.edu/class/cs253/
CS253 - Web Security
Principles of web security. The fundamentals and state-of-the-art in web security. Attacks and countermeasures. Topics include: the browser security model, web app vulnerabilities, injection, denial-o...
web.stanford.edu
December 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Neat idea!
December 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Pull a hardened image, run `npm install`, and the embedded Socket Firewall automatically secures every dependency that gets installed.

This is what secure-by-default actually looks like. We’re excited to partner with Docker and make this real at scale.
December 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
That's right. Unfortunately, it's not only NPM these days
December 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM