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davidgro
lemmy.world

I'm beginning to think this "NPM" thing isn't a great idea.

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NotSteve_reply
lemmy.ca

I don't really see how it's NPM at fault here. This was caused by a malicious actor taking control of an account and putting out bad packages on it. It could happen on any package repository for any language

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davidgroreply
lemmy.world

My understanding is that for most package managers the signing keys are held by a smallish number of maintainers responsible for entire sections, who presumably keep those accounts pretty tightly secured. Not impossible to take over, but it's a smaller attack surface.

While for NPM as far as I know every uploader keeps their own account and there's not even signing keys to lose control of.

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hirihit640reply
sh.itjust.works

I've heard quite a few PyPi and Cargo attacks though, but I bet the main reason why hear NPM so much is simply because NPM is the biggest, and thus the most valuable target

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Fizzreply
lemmy.nz

I'm not familiar with npm but why is this always NPM? Is it a specific issue they have?

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BoofStrokereply
sh.itjust.works

It's a "package manager" that has zero integrity checks built in. Web devs also love it. Nice combination.

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hirihit640reply
sh.itjust.works

because it's the biggest. Just like how hackers target windows and not linux (assuming they are targeting users and not servers).

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homes
piefed.world

One day, back in 1995, I could download every red hat package onto a series of 13 floppies.

In fact, it was required if you wanted to install red hat. So was compiling them all onto your own computer.

How far we’ve come

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cyberveganreply
lemmy.world

NPM is not a Linux thing - it's to do with web applications, so it works on Windoze and Mac too.

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crandlecanreply
lemmy.zip

Windoze? What's that? Sounds like socialism 🤨 And I never eat hamburgers, just so you know

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