All the world a stage, and all the packages are merely players GitHub npm package registry has rolled out a publishing approval step to prevent the distribution of compromised packages before they can poison the software supply chain. Modern software development relies on imported bundles of code known as packages and sometimes libraries or modules. In the past decade or so, miscreants have focused on gaining access to the accounts of package maintainers. Subverting a widely used package...

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