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Isn't the title kind of self-conflicting? Dependency cooldowns work because not everybody is using them. The more people start using dependency cooldowns, the less effective they become.


There are comments elsewhere in the discussion indicating that these attacks tend to be discovered by automated scanners and the maintainers themselves, not by customers negatively impacted.


i had the same thing in mind, though, is not that part of the process until the release of available? should not the release already have the maintainers input?




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