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>They should first get package signatures implemented, it's a bigger threat to the npm community

Considering that signature checking would not have prevented this attack that has actually happened, I would say that not having signed packages is not in-fact the bigger threat.

Or can you point us to a prior example of a successful attack that could have been thwarted with proper signature checking?



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