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by acdha 1951 days ago
I think you’re getting downvoted because your point is obscured by the confrontational tone. Argument by authority is especially unconvincing when you aren’t using common terms correctly. In normal usage, “typosquatting” refers to someone registering common misspellings in a shared namespace. As clearly described in the post this is not that but rather exploiting non-obvious differences in the order in which different namespaces are checked.

Using terms correctly is especially important in security: someone who read your comment might incorrectly believe that this did not affect them because they are using the correct names for all of their dependencies.