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landr0idtoday at 4:04 PM1 replyview on HN

[3] is no longer true. They're definitely not unprepared for an incident like this. It's not the first time they've done it and they published an update to their process in Feb:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/02/13/crates.io-malicious-cr...

Not having an advisory INSTANTLY available isn't a sign of a decaying org. Chill.


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cube00today at 4:10 PM

> They're definitely not unprepared for an incident like this.

We shouldn't need to resort to pasting `find` commands [1] into the shell from blog posts to tell if we're compromised.

`cargo audit` should be reporting if these packages have been downloaded. The "What you need to do" section of the blog should be run `cargo audit`

> Not having an advisory INSTANTLY available isn't a sign of a decaying org. Chill.

The GitHub issue was opened 8 hours ago. The cargo.io team also acknowledged it 8 hours ago. [2]

> [3] is no longer true.

Previously published versions shouldn't just disappear from the list. There's still nothing there to indicate a version was yanked.

[1]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/supply-chain-attack-on...

[2]: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/318791-t-cra...

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