Sponsors


Triplebyte
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Clubhouse
CacheFly


Panel


Aaron Frost
AJ O’Neal
Chris Ferdinandi
Joe Eames
Aimee Knight
Charles Max Wood


Joined by special guests: Hillel Wayne and Richard Feldman

Episode Summary

In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, Hillel Wayne kicks off the podcast by giving a short background about his work, explains the concepts of formal methods and the popular npm package - event-stream, in brief. The panelists then dive into the recent event-stream attack and discuss it at length, focusing on different package managers and their vulnerabilities, as well as the security issues associated with them. They debate on whether paying open source developers for their work, thereby leading to an increase in contribution, would eventually help in improving security or not. They finally talk about what can be done to fix certain dependencies and susceptibilities to prevent further attacks and if there are any solutions that can make things both convenient and secure for users.

Links


STAMP model in accident investigation
Hillel’s Twitter
Hillel’s website
Richard’s Twitter
Stamping on Event-Stream


Picks

Joe Eames:


Stuffed Fables


Aimee Knight:


SRE book - Google
Lululemon leggings
DVSR - Band


Aaron Frost:


JSConf US


Chris Ferdinandi:


Paws New England
Vanilla JS Guides


Charles Max Wood:


Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones
KSL Classifieds
Upwork


Richard Feldman:


Elm in Action
Sentinels of the Multiverse


Hillel Wayne:


Elm in the Spring
Practical TLA+
Nina Chicago - Knitting
Tomb Trader

Special Guests: Hillel Wayne and Richard Feldman.