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Refer to the CHANGELOG for all info. --------- Co-authored-by: Wouter van Wageningen <wouter.vdub@yahoo.com> Co-authored-by: Josh Munic <jpmunic@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Jonathan Haas <haasjona@gmail.com>
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caption: 'Your login background for December'
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date: '2018-11-30'
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intro: 'Monthly roundup - November 2018: New showcases and a (false) security alarm'
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title: 'Monthly roundup - November 2018: New showcases and a (false) security alarm'
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---
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This is your monthly roundup of the freesewing news of the last four weeks,
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and a look at what lies ahead in the next month.
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## Looking back at November
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I have been very busy this month, but more about that in our roundup post for
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the year which you can expect on December 10th.
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Because I've been busy, a few showcase posts had fallen through the cracks.
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I've cleared the backlog in my inbox now, and as a result we have [a new Bruce
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showcase by Felix](/showcase/bruce-three-pack) and [a new Sandy showcase by
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Karin](/showcase/sandy-by-karin).
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If you've made one of our patterns, make sure to send in your pictures so we
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can add them too. I mean, even if it takes a while, I do eventually get around
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to it :)
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Earlier this week, I woke to the unsettling news that a popular package on NPM
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[had been hijacked by malicious
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actors](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/hacker-backdoors-widely-used-open-source-software-to-steal-bitcoin/).
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That's obviously shitty behaviour, but the fact that this package is a
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dependency of our backend (as in, we use it) made for a rude awakening. Our
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backend was patched by the time I got to work (yay for trains), but as more
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information came to light, it turned out it was never a problem in the first
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place.
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For one thing, the dependency was a so-called development dependency. Code that
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is included while developing, but not included in the production build.
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Furthermore, the malicious actors were targetting a very specific set of people
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in order to make off with their bitcoin, so there was never an issue.
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As the story was developing, we [posted updates on
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Twitter](https://twitter.com/freesewing_org/status/1067312509672177664) so if
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you want to make sure you want to hear all the latest news, make sure to follow
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[@freesewing_org](https://twitter.com/freesewing_org) on Twitter.
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## Looking ahead to December
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In early December we traditionally do our yearly roundup, so more on that soon
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:)
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