Safe Chain Prevents Developers From Installing Malware
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A new npm package, Safe Chain, aims to prevent malware installation, but is met with skepticism due to its own dependencies, including a recently malware-infected package.
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It’s another dependency - which comes with 6 more dependencies. One of which is ‘Chalk’, which was one of the recently malware-infected packages. Unless it’s a joke, and the Chalk dependency is just the punchline.