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by sysguest 73 days ago
well you know 100% know what dependabot does
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Leaves you open to vulnerabilities in overnight builds of NPM packages that increasingly happen due to LLM slop?
You can set a minimum age for packages (https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/supply-ch...), though that's not perfect (and becomes less effective if everyone uses it).
> becomes less effective if everyone uses it

I don’t think that’s necessarily the case. Exposure and discovery aren’t that tightly correlated. Maybe there’s a small effect, but I think it is outweighed by the fact that blast radius and spread is reduced while buying time for discovery.