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Data Theft Repackaged: A Case Study in Malicious Wrapper Packages on npm
The Socket Research Team breaks down a malicious wrapper package that uses obfuscation to harvest credentials and exfiltrate sensitive data.
A highly consumable list of bad (profanity) English words based on the nice short and simple list found in Google's "what do you love" project made accessible by Jamie Wilkinson here
This data has been exposed as
depending on what is required for your purposes.
npm install badwords
var badwordsArray = require('badwords/array');
var badwordsObject = require('badwords/object');
var badwordsRegExp = require('badwords/regexp');
"Bad words" implementations are frequently prone to the Scunthorpe problem
These kind of lists can be used for flagging things, but being used as a basis for outright blocking can cause issues.
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A highly consumable list of bad (profanity) english words
We found that badwords demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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