Or, you can of course always bundle your deps in ./blerg/ and refer to
them via ./blerg/blorg/ or whatever, and that'll be as explicit as you
can be.

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Isaac Schlueter <[email protected]> wrote:
> If she doesn't trust you, why is her code on your machine?  Why don't
> you just compromise HER files directly in that case?
>
> If you don't trust your infrastructure provider, then nothing can
> protect you.  If you want defense-in-depth against accidental things
> like this, then make sure that you have local copies in node_modules
> of the things you want to use.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Carlos <[email protected]> wrote:
>> From the docs:
>>
>> For example, if the file at '/home/ry/projects/foo.js' called
>> require('bar.js'), then node would look in the following locations, in this
>> order:
>>
>> /home/ry/projects/node_modules/bar.js
>> /home/ry/node_modules/bar.js
>> /home/node_modules/bar.js  [color added by me]
>> /node_modules/bar.js
>>
>> Maybe I'm paranoid.  Ok, I am paranoid.  But is there a potential for
>> injection of untrusted code here?  I mean, it's really unlikely that I would
>> be running a node-based service on a machine I don't own-as-in-root.  But
>> suppose I have users, and one of them is using node to do whatever just
>> because node is the coolest thing ever.  Should she trust me not to have put
>> something evil in /home/node_modules?  I mean, I could be evil.  I could
>> dump the list of the top ten downloads from the npm registry and then run
>> those module names through a typo predictor (This is insanely easy to
>> automate, plus you have variations of foo, node-foo and foo-node which
>> create even more open space for evil.) and seed /home/node_modules with
>> compromised versions of the real thing.  The next time Karen Koder does an
>> 'npm install' on a new package file she might very well end up pulling
>> compromised code.  I'm not saying this is a big security risk.  It's not.
>> If it were, I would not be posting here.  But I question whether this is
>> really good design practice and suggest that maybe pulling code from other
>> user directories is more risky than useful.
>>
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