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: No Way To Prevent This
No Way To Prevent This
2026-05-19 19:17:30.965091+02 by
Dan Lyke
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No Way To Prevent This,
Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens
Its a shame, but what can you do? This is just the price of building modern
web apps, said Senior Frontend Engineer Mark Vance, echoing the sentiments of a community
that completely relies on a 40-level-deep nested tree of unvetted packages maintained by
pseudonymous strangers to capitalize a single string. Theres absolutely no way to foresee
or prevent someone from taking over a long-abandoned utility package and injecting a
crypto-miner into every production build in the world. Its just an act of
nature.
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