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Comment by raggi

6 hours ago

nope, doesn't help. signatures and removal of script points have zero net effect on the value of the target that the ecosystem has, or how easy/hard it is to write a worm. the package code gets run, this is statistically true, and the exploited developers/environments will sign packages, this is also statistically true.

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