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1. Rationale behind the @bgeron-typosqu... Rationale behind the @bgeron-typosquatting-protect account, and a plea to the crates.io team

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   This account is an alias of @bgeron, and it owns a number of Rust crates with nice names, such as `the`. I solemnly promise to never put any content on these crates. They are nice names, but for security purposes I think they should be reserved names (forever without content). Here's the danger:

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   1. Somebody malicious registers crate `the` and puts malware on it.

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   2. Somewhere on an online forum, Alice and Bob are talking about a new Rust command line program. Alice tells Bob to cargo install the binary.

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   3. Bob is very sleepy and distracted today. Bob copy-pastes `cargo install the binary` into his terminal. He gets an error. He realizes his mistake and runs `cargo install NewFancyProgram` instead.