The Sam Ellis Show

The Package That Wasn't There

The Sam Ellis Show

Show Notes

Sam Ellis reports on HalluSquatting: how hallucinated package, repository, and skill names can become a software supply-chain risk when coding agents are allowed to fetch, install, and execute code.

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