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Meh. This is way too conspiracy theory-ish. Some people don't live their lives on Github, but I think some of the people that do can't fathom that anyone else w
by __david__ 10y ago
Meh. This is way too conspiracy theory-ish. Some people don't live their lives on Github, but I think some of the people that do can't fathom that anyone else wouldn't (similar to certain twitter/facebook users).
In the past I've done drive by patches to projects by signing up for a mailing list, dropping off my patch and unsubscribing a week later. Some of those patches might have even had bugs in them (it happens to the best of us)—they certainly weren't intentional.
This is reading way too much into an abandoned account—there are way more totally legit reasons to abandon an account than there are nefarious ones.
- ryanlol 10y agoWell, FWIW the gmail account attached to the github really looks like its been registered specifically for this. Interestingly though, there exists a pinterest account with the same email address "lecoeurlou@gmail.com" for a Louise Lecoeur
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- cyberferret 10y agoAgreed. For a while there, I had a GitHub account for years and only made one commit to an open source project, and basically did nothing else. I use another hosted Git platform for my day to day work, as well as self hosted repositories. In fact, even to this day, the amount of activity on my Github account (commits to other repos) can be counted on one hand.
- duaneb 10y agoDoes it matter? Motives are often inscrutable. The code was merged regardless. The point of the article to my reading was to ask for better standards, not necessarily to sensationalize.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoThe blog post seems much more like it's written to say "this was probably innocent but we need to address the possibility that it's not in order to protect projects from malicious actors".
- na85 10y agoHow is this different than the situation 20 years ago? The same thing could have and probably did happen.