Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source
by librexpr on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:45PM
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There's a big difference between publishing the source code of malware while clearly stating that it's malware, vs publishing trojan malware on NPM while knowing that it will be automatically installed by a bunch of package managers and cause damage. The former is fine; the latter is clearly malicious and is or should be a crime.
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Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source
by jlkuester7 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:58PM
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/s the real crime here is the way so few people seem to think it is important to pay attention to their dependency tree....
But in all seriousness, that was one of the most jarring things I found when switching from a Java/Maven stack to JS/NPM. Both Maven and NPM offer similar features for managing dependencies, but anecdotally I found the folks managing Java projects to be a lot more obsessive about carefully managing their dependencies while in the NPM world, it seems almost to be a "best practice" to just use open ranges for your dependencies and automatically update them...