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by smt88 3079 days ago
As others have said countless times on the original thread: new packages from different users should never have been allowed to replace the missing packages.

Even if a package is removed as malware, a user should never unexpectedly download the work of a totally new author that they haven't vetted.

Some of the protections should be done on the user side, but that's no reason for NPM to have dangerous policies.

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> but that's no reason for NPM to have dangerous policies.

Oversight != 'dangerous policies'. Seems like they thought they had this fixed.