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Only if you're okay with the legal consequences of sabotaging the company. They absolutely can sue you for it, and you might even face criminal prosecution for
by wccrawford 6y ago
Only if you're okay with the legal consequences of sabotaging the company. They absolutely can sue you for it, and you might even face criminal prosecution for such a thing.
- kkapelon 6y agoThere is also another scenario. I steal with social engineering (or phishing or other method) the GitHub credentials of an employee from a company I wish to harm. And then I simply log in GitHub(or use a VPN to appear in Iran) with those stolen credentials. Sounds like a very easy DOS method.
- afroboy 6y agoOn what basis they are going to sue him? he visited a specific country and than boom. how in the hell are going to prove that he did it in purpose.?
- kkapelon 6y agoExactly. Somebody who wanted to do this could simply book a flight where Iran in an intermediate destination. And then they would say "I had 30 minutes of waiting time in transit and I just wanted to add a comment on my Pull Request".
- richardwhiuk 6y agoOn the basis of this comment thread :)