Simon Willison’s Weblog

Incident report: npm. Fascinating insight into the challenges involved in managing a massive scale community code repository. An algorithm incorrectly labeled a legit user as spam, an NPM staff member acted on the report, dependent package installations started failing and because the package had been removed as spam other users were able to try and fix the bug by publishing fresh copies of the missing package to the same namespace.

# 11th January 2018, 5:27 pm / security, spammers, npm

Solving and creating captchas with free porn. More spammer ingenuity

# 28th January 2004, 8:37 am / captchas, spammers