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0cf8612b2e1eyesterday at 4:45 PM1 replyview on HN

The existing account to report is an unfortunate obstacle. Presumably not a huge deal if you were auditing code for vulnerabilities, but still an annoyance.


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notatallshawyesterday at 5:02 PM

The threat actor was sophisticated enough to spam GitHub issues with dozens of different accounts. I imagine they could completely overwhelm PyPI with unauthenticated reports.