News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Software downloaded 30k times from PyPI ransacked developers’ machines.

Re:Software downloaded 30k times from PyPI ransacked develop... by pfbtgom on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:17AM (#28008927)
With the release of GitHub’s Copilot, I wonder how far we are from ML identification of malicious repositories.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Software downloaded 30k times from PyPI ransacked develop... by remram on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:50PM (#28013843)
Isn't this a halting problem sort of endeavor? Figuring out if any possible input to the library triggers a "bad" outcome?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Software downloaded 30k times from PyPI ransacked develop... by sjg007 on Friday July 30, 2021 @01:32PM (#28010303)
Worthy startup idea!
[ Parent | on HN ]