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PyPI new user and new project registrations temporarily suspended.
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An interesting News Flash:

Incident Report for Python Infrastructure

Quote:New user and new project name registration on PyPI is temporarily suspended. The volume of malicious users and malicious projects being created on the index in the past week has outpaced our ability to respond to it in a timely fashion, especially with multiple PyPI administrators on leave.

While we re-group over the weekend, new user and new project registration is temporarily suspended.
Posted 6 hours ago. May 20, 2023 - 16:02 UTC

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The UNIX philosophy: "Do one thing, and do it well."

"The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers." :~ Konrad Zuse

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." :~ Albert Einstein
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#2
A good recall that we must not blindly install python packages on our computers!
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(May-21-2023, 08:41 AM)Gribouillis Wrote: ... we must not blindly install python packages on our computers!

Indeed.

There is a very good read here about "The Problem with Trusting Open Source Repositories"
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>>> import this

The UNIX philosophy: "Do one thing, and do it well."

"The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers." :~ Konrad Zuse

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." :~ Albert Einstein
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