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by dns_snek 276 days ago
For a start, maintainers of dependencies with more than 1000 weekly downloads should be forced to use phishing-resistant 2FA like WebAuthN to authenticate updates (ideally hardware security keys, but not strictly necessary), or sign the code using a registered PGP key (with significant cooldown and warnings when enrolling new keys, e.g. 72h).