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by teeray 1261 days ago
> anyone who isn't fetching their packages through Google's proxy will get told that whatever they're using is trying to trick them.

That is exactly the detection of a poisoned module in the ecosystem. It would break builds, issues would get filed, and a new version would be released (and the malicious party may not be so lucky this time since it’s trust on anyone’s first use).
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ignaloidas 1261 days ago
Considering how few people do so, I'm fairly certain it would take more than a month for somebody to catch that.

But I guess it's also fairly easy to test it: just serve a slightly different version to the google's go mirror (by the user agent), and see how long until somebody complains to you about it.

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morelisp 1261 days ago
> how few people do so

I think every company I know of with private Go modules (6-8 or so?) is running a module proxy, which will detect this. The several times we've detected this it's always been within 2-3 days of the upstream mistake. When I go to report a bug we're not always the first either.

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