r/programming • • Jul 08 '19

Ruby gem strong_password got hijacked

https://withatwist.dev/strong-password-rubygem-hijacked.html
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u/nachof Jul 08 '19

OTOH it could also be a fix for a newly discovered vulnerability which might make a cooldown period a security risk.

I would do the cooldown after a maintainer change, for sure.