Prevent typosquatting for roc packages and platforms

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Prevent typosquatting for roc packages and platforms #1515

Open Anton-4 opened 3 years ago

Anton-4 commented 3 years ago

Typosquatting is when malicious packages/platforms are created with a similar name as a popular package/platform to make use of the opportunity when the user makes a typo when trying to install a package/platform.

Anton-4 commented 3 years ago

Prevention mechanisms should be researched.