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Re:Malicious software libraries found in PyPI posing as well... by cookiecaper on Saturday September 16, 2017 @01:14AM (#15263019)
I'm suggesting that whoever currently has admin rights on the PyPi packaging servers, and it's someone, take responsibility for this and physically remove the typosquatting libs from the lookup mechanism. "We need donations before we can do that" doesn't pass muster as far as I'm concerned; leaving this unaddressed is an existential issue for PyPI.

There are already privately-maintained repositories and that's great, but IMO it's not an excuse for PyPi to leave this vulnerability open.

Re:Malicious software libraries found in PyPI posing as well... by xapata on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:25AM (#15263230)
Ah, so you're going to refuse to use PyPI until someone volunteers. I'm not certain that's an existential issue for PyPI. I plan to continue using it.