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I used a recruiting tool about 2 years ago that crawled GitHub & other sources, building a profile which including email addresses. One developer's profile did
by amorphid 10y ago
I used a recruiting tool about 2 years ago that crawled GitHub & other sources, building a profile which including email addresses. One developer's profile didn't have an email address, which I thought was odd, as the email would likely be in a git repo. Sure enough, it was.
As I write this, it occurs to me that there's not a foolproof way to verify an email in the developer's GitHub repos belongs to the same developer. GitHub user janedoe may or may not be the same person that made a commit w/ the email address jane@doe.com.
- chadscira 10y agoThe email verification was easy when they provided gravatar ids, which used to just be MD5(email).