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1) It is extremely unlikely that this was actually pushed to the github/dmca repo. Github has a bug where you can make commits to forked/"networked" repo's appe
by jfrunyon 6y ago
1) It is extremely unlikely that this was actually pushed to the github/dmca repo. Github has a bug where you can make commits to forked/"networked" repo's appear as if they're in the original repo.
2) They most certainly did not "impersonat[e] Nat Friedman using a bug in GitHub's application"; they impersonated him using a design feature in Git.
- HotHotLava 6y agoThey wrote a commit message with Nat Friedman's email address using a design feature of git, but it was still a design feature of GitHub that took this non-gpg signed commit and linked it with Nat Frieman's account, making it appear very legitimate in the GitHub UI, without an option for him to change that.