NPM package deletes all files when detects Russian IP

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[–]trident765 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

npm is a piece of shit. My friend wanted me to install it to run his project, and at first I resisted because I am uncomfortable with the amount of alterations npm makes to your computer, but he kept insisting until I finally gave in and installed it. It broke my computer and I basically needed to reinstall the operating system.

[–]fatman 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

So your VPN randomly exits from a node in eastern europe and your entire personal history and body of work and storage backups get wiped by a node module. God I hate javascript.

[–]iDontShift 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

yes. my decision to avoid javascript as if it where the plague has never been regretted

same with python. indentation to indicate structure is a horrible idea

[–]BravoVictor 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Wow, some of the comments are actually quite sickening, and is good proof that Kyiv are not the "good guys". The scumbag user solofeed at the end arguing, yeah, the code is hurting innocent people, but that's ok because it'll make those victims aware of the war.

First, everyone's aware of it. Second, victimizing innocent people to advertise that you're allegedly a victim is not going to pan out how you expect. If someone robs my house, that doesn't give me the right to rob a stranger to make them aware that there's robbers in the neighborhood.

I wonder if solofeed is sad about the people his government has been murdering in Donbass? Or if he thinks people should delete all the files on his computer to punish him for something his corrupt government is doing?

[–]asterias 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

This kind of thinking has been around since the nasty author of cdrwin had coded his software to destroy your files when it thought you had a pirated copy. He had some bastards who claimed to be "cd authorities" shilling his software while hiding all those traps and other bugs that were unacceptable for such an expensive piece of software.

[–]hej 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There is a program called LANViewer, it was given away on giveaweay sites a lot, well it would take screenshots of your desktop and send them to the dev. I caught it using an advanced HIPS firewall.

[–]LarrySwinger2 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

So they're co-opting FLOSS projects now? Very empty denial from the maintainer, who does not explain why the code is there in the first place? Don't think for a second that there is no deep state involvement here, and that the target in the long run isn't just Russia, but the entire world population. Just like how the plandemic justified the use of jab-induced biological weapons, this war justifies cybernetic warfare. They manufacture crises to condition the public to tolerate their clampdowns. Putin was a KGB agent who rose to prominence as a result of a false flag bombing. The whole two-side divide is manufactured. It has been throughout the 20th century: the Russian revolution was a takeover of the Russian government by New York jews, and the Nazis were funded by Wall Street. It is the Hegelian dialectic at work: theses put in conflict with antithesis creates a synthesis. Ordo ab chao.

[–]iDontShift 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

this as active deletes (4 minutes ago for me)

the 'cover-up' continues

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Does a Russian saiditor want to test this out.

With every account.