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minus-squarechgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoNpm doesn’t let you easily take over packages you don’t own.
minus-squareCysio@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agobut does let you take over their maintainers’ accounts (through poor security) and easily poison them
minus-squarechgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoNot more easily than anything else.
Npm doesn’t let you easily take over packages you don’t own.
but does let you take over their maintainers’ accounts (through poor security) and easily poison them
Not more easily than anything else.