[sega_sai]

It is scary. Here they caught the culprit quickly, but if they've been careful, I think they would be able to stay under the radar and still infect a fair few systems.

As a person who regularly runs pip install on my main desktop, I am definitely worried about arbitrary code execution that happens when you pip install. Sure I can run everything inside the container, but given that I do most of my work in python, I think that is too restrictive...

[louislang]

Yeah, the broad campaign makes it extremely noticeable. There are active campaigns right now that don't take this approach. Singular packages with novel malicious payloads.

> As a person who regularly runs pip install on my main desktop, where I am worried about arbitrary code execution that happens when you pip install.

We've open-sourced a sandbox and wrapped the Phylum CLI with it so you can do something like `phylum pip install <pkgName>,` it'll check our API first for known malware, then if it appears clean, will perform the installation in the sandbox. You can specify what the sandbox is allowed to touch in a TOML file.

See: https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage

[jvanderbot]

This is great. Is there something for crates.io?

Does the safety-oriented Rust community do this _automatically_?