“And so that’s why we recommend using phased rollouts” -Every DevOps engineer from now on

“But that costs us money and time” - some suit.

"And they promise fast threat mitigation... Let allow them to take over EVERYTHING! With remote access, of course. Some form of overwatch of what they in/out by our staff ? Meh... And it even allow us to do cuts in headcount and infra by $<digits_here> a year."

So have we decided to stop using checksums or something?

Perhaps it was the checksum/signature process!

Ya gotta keep checksumming until you find a fixed point.

when something is changed, we usually re-test. that's the whole point of testing anyway. :)