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by gizzlon 31 days ago
Interesting, this went Tanstack -> Nx Console -> GitHub

I wonder how many other secrets and tokens have been stolen, just waiting to be abused to publish a malicious version of.. something.

IMO, the problem is [1] that actually rotation all secrets just because you might have installed a compromised packe is a huuge PITA. So it's tempting to take it lightly and hope for the best. And even if you really try, it's easy to miss one.

1: in addition to "running code from whereever" with little sandboxing