Active NPM supply chain attack: Tinycolor and 40 Packages Compromised

Re:Active NPM supply chain attack: Tinycolor and 40 Packages... by efortis on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @12:52PM (#45264750)

Show them this Ken Thompson paper of 1984: "Reflections on Trusting Trust"

And then hardware compromises…

I don't mean install anything. I mean, it's not a problem particular to the JS ecosystem.

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Re:Active NPM supply chain attack: Tinycolor and 40 Packages... by lrvick on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @09:41PM (#45270574)

I full source bootstrapped a Linux distro from hex0 all the way to nodejs binaries just to deal with trusting trust risks.

"just give up" is not a valid strategy.

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Re:Active NPM supply chain attack: Tinycolor and 40 Packages... by efortis on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:24PM (#45271271)

where can I follow you? blog, x?

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Re:Active NPM supply chain attack: Tinycolor and 40 Packages... by lrvick on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @01:45PM (#45279005)

https://lance.dev has my mastodon etc. My friends and I also run the #! community, https://hashbang.sh #!:matrix.org

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