Open source archives hosting malicious software packages

[email protected] (James E Keenan) Fri, 15 Sep 2017 19:11:49 -0400
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/15/pretend_python_packages_prey_on_poor_typing/

Would CPAN be subject to the same problem as described in the article above?