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by nameiscubanpete 2521 days ago
That was my first thought. But then I realized some guy basically broke something so his stuff would work and someone else's wouldn't. He didn't destroy files, but that was malicious as hell.
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mean spirited and dramatic as hell, yes... also, a bad place where real "malicious" things could be done. but "malicious" has a specific meaning and this didn't affect users.

more like dramaticious if you ask me... but also uncovers actual dangerous weaknesses in the npm delivery pipeline...

it's kinda like a cat-fight in the one hundred acre javascript wood... pretty harmless, nobody's shit got pwned, but holy shit, kind of a vulnerable vector they found...