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So the poster is mad about abusing dependency confusion and expects a big tech company to reward them blindly?

Do they not realize that most big tech companies have moved on to single feeds that are governed by their own security/inventory teams? Using public registry is an anti pattern now and has been for awhile, well before “dependency confusion”.

Not all package managers have implemented a stopgap to the problem either. I’m a bit disappointed to see this article though. The world runs on trust and we all trust that people won’t abuse known vectors for their own gain.



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