[33a]

When we find malware on any registry (npm, rubygems, pypi or otherwise), we immediately report it to the upstream registry and try to get it taken down. This helps reduce the blast radius from incidents like this and mitigates the damage done to the entire ecosystem.

You can call it ambulance chasing, but I think this is a good thing for the whole software ecosystem if people aren't accidentally bundling cryptostealers in their web apps.

And regarding not copying massive trees of untrusted dependencies: I am actually all for this! It's better to have fewer dependencies, but this is also not how software works today. Given the imperfect world we have, I think it's better to at least try to do something to detect and block malware than just complain about npm.

[hsbauauvhabzb]

So instead you prolong the problem while making money? Nice!

[jondwillis]

I’m all for thinking about second, or third, or fourth order effects of behavior, but unless you have proof that Socket is doing something like lobbying that developers keep using NPM against their own best interests, frankly, I don’t know what your point here is.