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Richard Moss

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Hello,

Thanks for taking the time to comment. Yes of course there should be security, but if every AV vendor blocked all the things, then that is just as big a problem. I'm used to AV vendors occasionally flagging the software as malicious - the good ones, I fill in a false positive report and thus far they've always come back clean and the issues go away. Some of the lesser ones either don't have a false positive submission or you get no response and then I have to wait, again so far these issues have naturally resolved.

CrowdStrike is the only one that flags everything as malicious and have been doing so for a year now. Maybe they operate under a different model, I don't know. All I know is it quite frustrating.

As far as 3rd party libraries go, I'm usually quite cautious with what I use. Whilst I don't vet every single line, I don't grab random packages willy nilly either. This isn't a node situation where you have literally hundreds of packages and sub packages and scant idea of what is what. As an example, WebCopy uses 4 3rd party libraries for wheels I either don't have the knowledge to reinvent (e.g. brotli compression), or the time (e.g. PDF parsing, language detection).

Regards; Richard Moss