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hoppp • yesterday at 5:51 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Generally we don't hear much about attacks in Java like that. But they probably exist but python and javascript are targeted mainly because everyone uses them. They cover a lot of ground.


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td521534f12 • yesterday at 6:21 PM

A big reason Python and Java are juicy targets are because for a very long time pip and npm executed code on the user's machine on package install, not just on import. (This is changing in newer versions of pip and npm IIRC)

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