logoalt Hacker News

marifjerenlast Sunday at 10:12 PM1 replyview on HN

> """ I'm strongly in favor of blocking post-install scripts by default. :+1: This is a change that will have a painful adjustment period for our users, but I believe in ~1 year everyone will look back and be thankful we made it. It's nuts that a [pnpm|yarn|npm] install can run arbitrary code in the first place. """

- a pnpm maintainer 1 year ago

https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/pull/8897


Replies

classifiedlast Monday at 6:00 AM

And yet here we are…

Convenience trumps security every time. With people who allegedly know better.

show 1 reply