In the light of the latest Supply-Chain Attack on npm, which (among others) hit chalk, I can't help but smile a little, because of the irony.
David Gilbertson imagined an attack like this 7 years ago: I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how..
It's a nice read and it aged better than we would have hoped.
In his article he wrote the malicious Package himself:
People love pretty colours — it’s what separates us from dogs — so I wrote a package that lets you log to the console in any colour.
It's basically what chalk does - isn't it?
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