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Python Package Index had one person on-call to hold back weekend malware rush

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The Register; By Thomas Claburn 		Mail this story
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We speak to infra director after project temporarily freezes new user accounts. The Python Package Index (PyPI), home to more than 455,000 Python code repositories, caged itself to new users and their projects over the weekend because it could not deal with a rush of efforts to create malicious accounts and code libraries.…

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