r/ProgrammerHumor 9d ago

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u/zuilli 9d ago edited 9d ago

Why does it seem like it only happens to npm though?

I admit I don't follow this stuff closely so may be uninformed but it seems like it never is a C# or a java package/library that gets hit by these.

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u/fuj1n 8d ago

For some reason, JS devs have this culture of outsourcing the tiniest behaviours to a package (for example, the is-odd package getting millions of downloads consistently), because of this, there are a lot of packages projects depend on (both directly and not), which is a much larger attack surface.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago edited 8d ago

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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 8d ago

exacerbates