Re:Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub or...
by amluto on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:25AM
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>> The security failure is in an ecosystem that allows packages to run arbitrary code silently.
> No, your security failure is that you use a package manager that allows third-parties push arbitrary code into your product with no oversight.
How about both? It’s conceptually straightforward to build a language in which code cannot do anything other than read its inputs, consume resources, and produce correctly typed output.
This would not fully solve the supply chain problem — malicious code could produce maliciously incorrect output or exploit side channels, but the exposure would be much, much less than it is now.
> No, your security failure is that you use a package manager that allows third-parties push arbitrary code into your product with no oversight.
How about both? It’s conceptually straightforward to build a language in which code cannot do anything other than read its inputs, consume resources, and produce correctly typed output.
This would not fully solve the supply chain problem — malicious code could produce maliciously incorrect output or exploit side channels, but the exposure would be much, much less than it is now.