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NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh

Try using a Russian Cyrillic е or к or у Sure no one will be able to install the app from the CLI (unless there is a bug in npm’s parsing logic) but you should be fine distributing hyperlinks to skim-readers ;)

кейген

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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I thought buttbuttination taught everyone how incredibly stupid this is 25-30 years or so ago already? But no. Just a few years ago I tried to enter an answer into a Hungarian Q&A site recommending to take the Algeciras-Tangier ferry and the answer was refused. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geci

The Scunthorpe problem all over again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

tee hee.

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh

Have you had any publishing issues? My last successful publish on this package was 3 months ago, and I started noticing issues with deploys a few weeks back. Three fun days of CI/CD pipeline debugging to get to this..

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Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh

Time to change the name of your business to kexgen I guess.

GenKey?

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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post #19

I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh

unrelated to your question: Your website's very pretty, but doesn't scroll horizontally on mobile. It also looks like there might be a bug in the code sample - where does "fingerprint" come from?

You need to move your phone horizontally in order to scroll. It's a new spacial computing type of scrolling. /jk

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh

Unrelated, but your homepage has very bad FPS using firefox on mac due to the animation. Once I manage to scroll it works quite well.

Re: NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen

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I must be missing something obvious. What's malicious about the word "keygen"? What's the issue with ssh-keygen? gpg --gen-key?

"Keygens" are programs that generate valid product keys in order to crack software copyright protection. Under the DMCA or similar laws in many other countries, they are illegal to use, create, or distribute.
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