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OP got his 2-letter handle via a takeover request: https://dev.to/yg/how-i-got-two-letter-username-on-github-i12 https://dev.to/yg/how-i-got-two-letter-username
by bibinou 6y ago
OP got his 2-letter handle via a takeover request: https://dev.to/yg/how-i-got-two-letter-username-on-github-i12 https://dev.to/yg/how-i-got-two-letter-username-on-github-i1...
edit: the ghost repo is cool trick. Is there a writeup anywhere?
- gus_massa 6y agoThe OP changed his username in github less than a month ago to to the name of an inactive account? Perhaps the previous user is complaining.
- aptwebapps 6y agoYeah, but it's not like he did something nefarious. He found an account that was inactive and requested it from support and they gave it to him. If the previous user complained, either he would get to keep it or the previous user would get it - it wouldn't be deleted/disabled and they probably would have communicated something.
- thephyber 6y agoThe ghost repo trick sounds similar to a subdomain takeover. I can foresee this being a vector for publishing malicious code.