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Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 week ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is one of the more important reasons to minimize dependencies and be very picky about the ones we adopt.

[–] 3h5Hne7t1K@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Absolutely this. It almost seems like a controversial opinion sometimes, but microdependencies is a code smell imo. This could largely be improved by providing a more extended standard lib, at the cost of innovation and velocity maybe. I found this interesting: https://blessed.rs/crates

[–] Acters@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

IDK about you but the company I work for can't live without npm packages doing almost everything. For example: the is-even package.

[–] Case@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't disagree. My last job was using winget to update some things. I raised the concept of trusting otherwise unknown updates, but I was pushed aside for the quick utility.

I'm only a student of cybersecurity, but I harshly judge my former "security expert" on far more than that.

Like fuck, the help desk has to install every patch, to every machine, through a spreadsheet?

No, deploy that shit from a server. Fuck.

In a way, I'm glad I left. In another way, I would really like a pay check again... and I moved to a well, tech illiterate state. Fuck me.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

My condolences. Unfortunately, people are sometimes designated the in-house expert on a thing just because they seem slightly less ignorant of it than anyone else in the organization. That leaves more than a few people making decisions that impact security and privacy without good understanding or sound judgment in those areas.

Maybe you should train up and become your state's new security expert?