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The problem is large, sprawling and complex. In an ideal case, we'd have high quality packages maintained by reputable people/organizations. But today this just
by louislang 4y ago
The problem is large, sprawling and complex. In an ideal case, we'd have high quality packages maintained by reputable people/organizations. But today this just isn't true. Open source takes contributions from a large number of unknown authors/contributors with motivations that may or might night align with your own.
We really need a defense in depth approach here. Sandbox where it makes sense, perform analysis of code being published, consider author reputation, etc.