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Security Research Apr 12, 2026
PR Proposal: Enable Binary Hardening Flags by Default in pip/setuptools

Proposal to add default CFLAGS and LDFLAGS hardening to pip and setuptools C extension builds. Two environment variables would protect all 400K+ PyPI packages.

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Security Research Apr 12, 2026
The Python Ecosystem's Binary Security Gap: A 373-Binary Audit

We audited 373 ELF binaries across 46 Python packages and found 93% lack stack canaries, 98% lack full RELRO, and 94% lack FORTIFY_SOURCE. A typical …

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