Last week, I got a LinkedIn message from a recruiter at a small crypto startup. We exchanged a few messages over a couple of days, she described a broken proof-of-concept they needed a lead engineer for, and then sent me a public GitHub repo to review. Specifically, she asked me to “check out the deprecated Node modules issue.”It’s not uncommon to ask for a review of an existing codebase, but something felt off and raised an alarm in my head, so I decided to get a bit extra paranoid.Instead of c...