The part where you personally checked out who published the package and did due diligence would save you with NPM. That gpg protection scheme would prevent MITM

The part where you personally checked out who published the package and did due diligence would save you with NPM. That gpg protection scheme would prevent MITM attacks presumably. The presence of that key isn’t going to establish trust (though maybe you could build off of it so it’s foundational in that sense), or somehow enable the fbi and dod.