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akuchlinglast Wednesday at 6:25 PM1 replyview on HN

Stray thought: adding a library the PR submitter controls would be a good starting point for an XZ/SSH-style supply chain attack: badger & threaten the maintainers to add the dependency, and then sneak something into a future library update.


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falloutxlast Wednesday at 9:13 PM

This seems like a huge red flag, there is no need to add any more dependencies to an already fully featured repo