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TrickyRick on Aug 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Malicious crossenv package on npm

Actually Maven Central has about 200K packages. Incidentally about the same number of packages by which npm has increased in the last year. So no, a hand-curated submission process is probably not reasonable

[1]: http://www.modulecounts.com

KirinDave on Aug 2, 2017 [–]

Thanks for bringing the numbers to this.

NPM is such a massive package repository, it's sort of a testament to the community that these sorts of things don't happen more often.

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