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by krono 1815 days ago
Yeah I think people really underestimate how massive of a security liability node modules are in the way the system currently works.

Fixing it should really be given top priority, but doesn't look to be a very popular subject when you compare it to some of the others such as whether or not ESLint should become a NodeJS core module ...

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NPM is one of the most dangerous implementations, but the whole concept of pulling in thousands of unknown dependencies is dangerous on its own, even in other languages.