Daily Insight: Supply Chain | Software Distribution Trust Is No Longer Enforceable

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Assumption Retired "If the sender is Google, the email is safe." Trust inheritance from platform reputation now functions as attack concealment. Email security controls that whitelist by domain are structurally defeated.

Insight The attack surface is no longer unauthorized access. It is authorized access through trusted infrastructure that operates exactly as intended. Platform trust is transitive. Platform liability is not.

Unresolved Edge No mechanism exists to distinguish legitimate platform use from malicious platform abuse when both originate from the same authenticated infrastructure. Detection requires behavioral analysis that most organizations do not have.