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The point of the cooldown is to allow time for vendor scans to complete and for compromised packages to be pulled. It's not about waiting for an end user to not
by moebrowne 11mo ago
The point of the cooldown is to allow time for vendor scans to complete and for compromised packages to be pulled. It's not about waiting for an end user to notice they've been compromised.
> Meanwhile, the aforementioned vendors are scanning public indices as well as customer repositories for signs of compromise, and provide alerts upstream (e.g. to PyPI).
https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using...
- loloquwowndueo 11mo agoDepending on “security vendors” to do scans of every single update seems naive and over optimistic to me, but hey - everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon regardless of what I think so I guess we’ll see soon.
- limaho 11mo agoDon't "security venders" detect and report most of these types of attacks already today?
- loloquwowndueo 11mo agoDo they? :)
- moebrowne 11mo agoWhat's the alternative?