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feross

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About feross

Founder & CEO, Socket – Socket makes a developer-first security platform that prevents vulnerable and malicious open source dependencies from infiltrating your software supply chain.

Stanford visiting lecturer, CS 253 Web Security – Principles of web security, attacks and countermeasures, and more...

Open source maintainer – 100+ open source packages on npm, including WebTorrent , StandardJS , BitMidi , simple-peer , and more .

You can reach me at {my username}@feross.org, or find out more on my website: https://feross.org/resume

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/feross; my proof: https://keybase.io/feross/sigs/gO6pVIJ1DXdy9Y21yil6nlyk_by5BE_GaaWOOQJ5PvQ ]

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    Founder/CEO of Socket here. If you have a suggestion for how to scope down the permissions of our app, we’re all ears. But based on our research, it’s not possible. More info docum…

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    Comment #47946521

    Thanks for the mention!

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    Lots more technical research about the actual attack and how it worked here: https://socket.dev/blog/trivy-under-attack-again-github-acti... Disclosure: I’m the founder of Socket.

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