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Discussion on: Why I dislike GitHub security alerts? (and how to disable them)

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Liran Tal

Nice write-up Pooya. Love seeing how developers further embrace Security ✨

I wanted to point out a nuance with regards to the relevancy of security fixes to package maintainers, and essentially those authoring libs and not end-user applications - where-as GitHub/Dependabot will update the lockfile directly, Snyk updates the package.json manifest as well, and so if a security fix for example is provided via a change from a nested dependency of say 5.2.1 version to 6.0.0 then this directly affects your end-users, as a next install will actually be grabbing the fixed nested dependency.