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Comment by dtech

Npm has weak security boundaries.

Basically any dependency can (used to?) run any script with the develop permissions on install. JVM and python package managers don't do this.

Of course in all ecosystems once you actually run the code it can do whatever with the permissions of the executes program, but this is another hurdle.

parent dtech 11 months ago

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