Hacker News·3 min read·medium
NPM's release cooldown is security theater
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The author argues that the recent trend of 'release cooldowns' in package managers like npm and pnpm is ineffective security theater. Instead of waiting for community vetting, the author suggests that developers should adopt active scanning and manual research to identify malicious code.
Due to many ecosystem attack incidents, package managers (and packagers, and managers) are apparently falling in love with cooldowns these days ( npm , pnpm , yarn and so on). As a result, their upstream registry is time-gated for some 7 days or 24 hours.
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