There is really just a handful of crates that nearly often get pulled in and probably like 5 authors across them.
Supply chain harderning is pretty easy in rust: caro-deny, cargo-suply-chain, cargo-crev, cargo-vet, cargo-{s}bom and probably a few more I can't remember.
Yes, knowing that would be helpful!
Is there a way to whitelist owners/publishers in Cargo?