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by itsgrimetime 579 days ago
> Why invest so much time and money in a feature that prevents such a small percentage of data breaches ...

Because it's a tractable problem that these devs can solve - and just because they're working on this doesn't meant they (or others) aren't also working on the other things.

> It doesn't matter that you can cryptographically verify that a package came from a given commit if ...

Sure, but just because it doesn't solve every single problem doesn't mean it's not worthwhile