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They didn't do anything morally wrong. The data is already public and easily searchable with a few regex tricks. They just made it a tiny bit more convenient bu
by daenney 10y ago
They didn't do anything morally wrong. The data is already public and easily searchable with a few regex tricks. They just made it a tiny bit more convenient but anyone that's thought of this as a source of credentials can easily scrape it themselves.
If anything what they're doing might help shine a light on how big of an issue this actually is and provide a helpful corpus of data to train algorithms on to detect this better.
The issue at this point is far too big to be able to go around and notify everyone about this. There's also plenty of repositories that are abandoned or maintainers that are MIA so you'll never be able to properly resolve all of it.
- quickben 10y agoMorality depends on current life views, upbringing, societal norms etc. You may disagree and that is fully in your right. However, account for the fact that not all HN readers are from US. In other countries what they did is in some case against the law (promoting/enabling criminal behaviour and activities/etc).
- daenney 10y agoI'm not from the US so that's already accounted for.