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Because developers can't spell

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Reading in the papers how a typosquatted python library was stealing ssh/gpg keys--for nearly a year before it was spotted--reminded me how much times have changed.

In the good ol' days, if you misspelled a library name, you would get just a friendly message in return:

$ gem i -N nokogirl
Fetching nokogirl-1.0.gem

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It's actually spelled nokogiri, not nokogirl
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Successfully installed nokogirl-1.0
1 gem installed

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Authors: ag