OK, and how is this something unique to the Node.js package ecosystem? What's stopping someone on PyPI/some other PM from doing the same thing? I personally view these more as malicious copycat acts than anything inherent with the ecosystem. Should NPM start manually reviewing all of the packages that go through them, because the handful of abusers? I'm not so sure. The situation on languages without a widely used package manager/ecosystem like C++ I don't think is any better.