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Re:Npm install could be dangerous by tlrobinson on Monday January 26, 2015 @12:54PM (#8948410)
"Scanning tools for dangerous packages"

This seems like an impossible problem (essentially the halting problem). On Linux perhaps you could build packages in a container then copy the results to the installation directory, but there's no guarantee require("rimrafall") won't just "child_process.exec('rm -rf /')".

Re:Npm install could be dangerous by politician on Monday January 26, 2015 @02:02PM (#8948831)
At the very least, they could install packages in a VM and check that the VM can be rebooted.
Re:Npm install could be dangerous by tlrobinson on Monday January 26, 2015 @02:39PM (#8949062)
Then someone could just craft a package that deletes every file except the ones required for booting...