Open source packages remain one of the great accelerators of modern software delivery. They help teams avoid rewriting commodity functions, reduce development time, and participate in a global engineering ecosystem. But the same dependency model that creates speed also creates a trust challenge: enterprises often run code they did not write, published by maintainers they do not directly control, through pipelines that may have access to sensitive credentials. npm and PyPI attack waves show the other side of the same trust problem. Open source registries remain essential to modern software delivery, but malicious packages, typosquatting, maintainer compromise, dependency c…

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