Our security agencies appear to be waking up to the fact that cyber threats from foreign states are a real and present danger to democracy and require more proactive measures to combat.

Code maintainers around the world are now thinking about their vulnerabilities at a strategic and tactical level. It is not only their code itself they will be worrying about, but also their code distribution mechanisms and software assembly processes.

It would be helpful if the PR campaign against China was supplemented with a decent investment at a natonal level in cybersecurity, an area we have woefully underspent in as a nation.