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Python dev saved from disaster by intuition...and AI
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The reporter can't install that repo that will totally hose your system.
Key facts
- In the period from January through June 2025, LinkedIn restricted 386,000 accounts after user reports
- And it was a mere 86,000 in the January through June 2021 period
- GitHub, which maintains npm, is preparing to release npm 12 which changes the behavior of the npm install command
- As Imankulov described the exchange the recruiter asked him to look into an issue with a deprecated Node module
Summary
A person claiming to be a recruiter from a small crypto startup got in touch through LinkedIn, looking for help with what she described as proof-of-concept code that didn't work. As Imankulov described the exchange the recruiter asked him to look into an issue with a deprecated Node module. "I'd heard, as probably all of us have, about those types of attacks," Imankulov explained in a phone interview. So he took the unusual step of spinning up a VPS on Hetzner where he cloned the repo. "I ran an agent to test how it worked, and I was almost certain that it would return to me 'everything is clear, the code is ugly but in general it's safe to run and go ahead and perform your review,'" he explained.