Buying Time: Package Managers Are Adding Delay as a Security Control
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Discussion of the blog article Buying Time: Package Managers Are Adding Delay as a Security Control.
Composer 2.11 shipped a cooldown that refuses to install a version until it has aged. vlt now holds npm publishes until their dependencies actually exist, because 22% of new npm versions land broken. And Ruby Central's reviewers threw out 90% of what an AI scanner flagged.
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