How are you Vetting New Packages?

Some of the code you depend on was written by Ukrainians, Russians, and hacktivists. Deep in the dependency tree of NPM packages your software depends on, you will find node-ipc. That package was recently drafted into the ongoing war in Ukraine. If you are in Russia or Belarus, it will delete your files. Otherwise, it will only write an anti-war message to stdout and put it on your desktop.

As a professional organization, you are surely not just getting the latest software packages directly from a repository on the internet. But what is your procedure for vetting new versions you incorporate into your blessed repository? With the current threat level, having a single overworked developer do this in addition to his normal development tasks is not a good idea.

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