Talk Python To Me
Talk Python To Me
Michael Kennedy
#319: Typosquatting and Supply Chains Vulnerabilities
59 minutes Posted Jun 6, 2021 at 7:00 am.
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One of the true superpowers of Python is the libraries over at the Python Package Index. They are all just a "pip install" away. Yet, like all code that you run on your system, it is done with some degree of trust. How do we know that all of those useful packages are trustworthy? That's the topic of this episode. Bentz Tozer and John Speed Meyers are here to share their research into typosquatting on PyPI and other sneaky deeds. But we also discuss some potential solutions and fixes.