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by ohitsdom 3083 days ago
It does fix the problem, although consumers of the package need to first verify they trust the original author.

For example, if Google published "Google/polymer", dependents would be unaffected if a new package was published from "badguy/polymer". I think you're saying it's still not fixed because someone could register the Google author name before the real Google gets it, but that is a understood problem across every website.