node-seccomp VS cli

I was exploring the actual implementation[0] of a capabilities feature in Nodejs and was utilising seccomp (via libseccomp) on Linux at least to achieve a greater degree of security than might otherwise be possible by remaining in userland code. The idea is that you'd write your code, import whatever you like and define your capabilities upfront at initialisation. The problem is there's quite a big disconnect between what you are doing in JavaScript and what's happening with system calls in v8, libuv and the other native parts that it's difficult to predict what you need to block and what's actually going to happen. So I don't think my approach is really viable in a general sense, although capabilities in general I think would improve the situation if the wider community were to adopt the approach.

[0]. https://github.com/roryrjb/node-seccomp

Because sometimes I make idiotic mistakes and I really don't want that embarrassing stuff out there where people can see. I ran head first into an npm bug once when I tried to symlink the README file which resulted in the thing getting published without a README.

https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/6746

Embarrassing. And then they slapped me with a stupid 24 hour count down on top of it. I seriously hate this thing.

This is the same NPM that made a change causing the `integrity` field to go silently missing from `package-lock.json` [0] when installing packages, and then also not complaining at any other time in the future.

[0] https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/4460

Node.js v21 includes npm v10.2.0, which notably introduces a new sbom command that allows you to generate a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for the current project. You can read more about the changes in recent NPM releases on GitHub.

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