0.0.1 (current) Thoroughness: Medium Understanding: Medium
by yvt on 2021-09-23
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This crate doesn't seem to do anything useful, and its intent is unclear, but probably it's for name-squatting or making a point about the lack of name-squatting policy. The author released a series of crates with similar contents. See my review on metaverse 0.0.1 for a list of such crates.
This crate is not actively malicious.