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by andix 212 days ago
Even if less consumers will notice a compromise and report it, it still gives additional time for security researchers to analyze the packages, and for maintainers to notice themselves they got compromised

There are a lot of companies out there, that's scan packages and analyze them. Maintainers might notice a compromise, because a new release was published they didn't authorize. Or just during development, by getting all their bitcoin stolen ;)