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Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by btaf45 to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why stop there lets just kill js in its entirity.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really a language-specific problem. Like, there are numerous languages that have distribution mechanisms for libraries that might potentially be malicious.

Only way I can think that the language might be a factor would be if a language were designed to only run in a restricted mode.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not really a language-specific problem, but why should that stop us from this goal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago

You must be very smart.