Faker.js VS Banshee

Faker.js

• JavaScript News and Updates of January 2022
  3 projects | dev.to | 31 Jan 2022

  Early this month, the malicious attack on free-to-use libraries, namely color.js and faker.js, created a real uproar in the development community. These tools are used in thousands of projects and their downloading rate from npm is estimated in millions per week. To everyone’s surprise, it turned out to be an inside job. Marak Squires, the creator of these libraries, intentionally committed malicious code to his projects and published updated codebases on GitHub and npm. It is said that this sabotage was caused by unsuccessful attempts of Mr. Squires to monetize his projects. Fortunately, malicious packages were quickly removed and the attacker’s account was suspended. The story sparked a new wave of discussion in the development community on possible steps to make the development and maintenance of open-source projects more sustainable.

• Unofficial Faker.js fork positions itself as official successor and assumes name and Open Collective sponsors
  2 projects | /r/opensource | 17 Jan 2022

  For anyone else curious about the allusion to Aaron Swartz, it can be found here and reads (as of posting):

• This is not normal.
  1 project | /r/antiwork | 12 Jan 2022

  Sorry little boy--- I needed to update my LinkedIn profile, hire a professional to write my resume and photograph me, and work on an open-source project no one will use (or worse- work on something everyone uses)"

• Is there something wrong with OpenSource model?
  3 projects | /r/linux | 12 Jan 2022

  So people, I've been reading the news regarding some great packages on GitHub, like the Colors and the Faker. I understand that this isn't related entirely with the linux community, but it is something that we should pay attention.

• Re: the faker.js debacle: A daily reminder that htmx & hyperscript are dependency free
  2 projects | /r/htmx | 11 Jan 2022

  A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer.

• Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects
  2 projects | /r/technology | 9 Jan 2022

  I mean he also maliciously changed all of the links on a faker.js issue to point to conspiracy theories (which I am pretty sure is against Github's TOS): https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/pull/2

• What happened with fakerjs
  3 projects | /r/javascript | 8 Jan 2022
• The EndGame - Fakerjs
  2 projects | dev.to | 8 Jan 2022

  About Four (4) Days Ago, the Author of Fakerjs a popular JavaScript library with more than 2 million weekly Download from NPM Deleted the repository and replaced it with one that only has the modified ReadMe "What really happened with Aaron Swartz?" and no content, and pushed an empty package to npm as the latest version (6.6.6).

• Marak, creator of faker.js who recently deleted the project due to lack of funding and abuse of open source projects/developers pushed some strange Anti American update which has an infinite loop
  9 projects | /r/programming | 8 Jan 2022
• Marak adds infinite loop test to popular colors.js
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2022

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