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Any way in which blockchain technology can be used? Like, the transaction becomes the act of the author uploading the code and the repo and user verify the tran

Any way in which blockchain technology can be used? Like, the transaction becomes the act of the author uploading the code and the repo and user verify the transaction in some form?

peterwwillis 9y ago
Nope. You can't solve phishing with technological means. You have to curate either a whitelist or blacklist. The best way to handle this is whitelists of trusted package maintainers and/or code authors.
- kumarvvr 9y ago
  Ohh ok. Thanks. Great to know.
- zapt02 9y ago
  To be fair you can do a lot with simple heurestics. New package + large number of downloads || new package || new package author = show users a warning message before installing the package.