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Re:NPM security update: Attack campaign using stolen OAuth t... by rvnx on Friday May 27, 2022 @01:45PM (#31532479)
Well it's their choice to ask the user to send a plain-text password.

There are alternatives to avoid this, on the same model of SSH key authentication where the secret stays on the client-side.

Nothing prevents them from using a password to derive a private key using PBKDF2 in client-side and answer to a specific challenge.

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