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It should be noted that when developers have the ability to upload packages themselves, there is no guarantee that what the user gets corresponds to the source code that is available. The malware in node-ipc is suspiciously absent from the published source repository which has the latest release in 2021. If you were pulling directly from the source code you would not have seen this. This is an issue with npm, not libre software or "open source."
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