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Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

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1208 points jamesberthoty | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 11:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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totetsu ◴[17 Sep 25 01:13 UTC] No.45270362[source]▶
I was just reading an article in Foreign Affairs that was discussing a possible future with an increased separation of science and technological developments between China and The West. And it occurred to me, what would such a siloed landscape mean for OSS and basically the whole web infrastructure as it is today, shared and open for anyone in any country. I think this kind of malware becoming pervasive could be the failure state if this future becomes reality.
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1. lyu07282 ◴[17 Sep 25 03:28 UTC] No.45271293[source]▶
I always thought open source in a purely profit driven society was always a bit contradictory, but it's like the wikipedia. There is just something innate in people that makes them care for their craftsmanship and their community with zero profit incentive, despite the prevailing ideology telling us that it ought to be impossible and surely about to collapse any moment now. OSS will prevail no matter Microsoft's disastrous and irresponsible stewardship of a smallish portion of it.