node, security, swearing 

"On Being Operationally Incompetent"

> What I hope you have learned today is that ANYONE with publish rights to ANY module you depends on, directly or indirectly, can shut down your entire environment.

> And yet, I have publish rights to modules that are being downloaded by pretty much every fucking node deployment in the world... I have publish rights to qs and I don't even maintain that module anymore - that's 2.5 million daily downloads.

medium.com/@eranhammer/on-bein

node, security, swearing 

@garbados lol fuck

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