TrustList daily digest · Our research

Friday, 9 October 2026

Our research: the stories TrustList published on this day, each in a line of our own. Open a story for the whole piece and its sources.

Our research3

1Blog
Only 2 of 47 software deals we covered addressed customer contracts
17 of the 47 promised continuity, 10 gave a price and one gave a date on which part of a product stops. None paired a continuity promise with a word on contracts, data processing or hosting.
2Blog
How to tell if the software you host yourself is still patched
A method for checking vendor lifecycle pages, advisory feeds and the CISA exploited-vulnerabilities catalog against the versions you run, built on five old flaws added to the catalog on 8 October 2026.
3Blog
Only 7 of 345 described launches say where the maker is based
Our launch board also shows that 29 of 37 products calling themselves open source name no licence, and 30 of 36 products found through Hacker News rest on the maker's own word alone.

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