Daniel Stenberg, creator of curl — software running on an estimated eight billion devices — published a detailed argument on InfoQ for replacing trust-based supply chain practices with systematic verification. The piece outlines curl's own hardening posture: over 200 CI pipeline jobs per commit, a strict ban on binary blobs in the repository, mandatory two-factor authentication for all contributors, and continuous fuzzing via OSS-Fuzz. Stenberg also advocates for signed release artifacts and Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) as baseline requirements for any project seeking to be taken seriously by downstream consumers. The timing aligns with growing regulatory pressure: the EU Cyber Resilience Act imposes mandatory software transparency and security requirements on products sold into the EU market, and Stenberg frames verification culture as the practical path to compliance. For teams maintaining or consuming open source libraries, the article provides a concrete checklist — CI coverage breadth, blob auditing, MFA enforcement, fuzzing, SBOM publication, and artifact signing — that maps directly to the controls regulators and enterprise security teams are beginning to require.