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Yeah it's pretty ridiculous if they locked him out for changing the README + issue comments of his own repo. Curious if he actually violated anything in GitHub'
by punk_ihaq 5y ago
Yeah it's pretty ridiculous if they locked him out for changing the README + issue comments of his own repo. Curious if he actually violated anything in GitHub's TOS.
- cr3ative 5y ago"Erased" is the key term here, they rug-pulled a popular NPM package. That's within their rights, but it's going to break things and looks very suspicious, so I'm not entirely surprised their account has been locked down.
- viro 5y ago> they rug-pulled a popular NPM package. That's within their rights That sounds like malicious activity. That's normally against most terms of service
- sneak 5y agoJust because it's malicious doesn't mean it's against the rules (or should be). He didn't do anything wrong. You should have local mirrors of stuff you rely on.
- viro 5y agoIt's literally a crime. malware is illegal.
- sneak 5y agoNo, it's not. Publishing malware is protected expression in the USA, like all source code (thanks, djb!). Forcing it onto the computers of others is illegal, but as you know that's not what happened here. Pulled, not pushed.
- Macha 5y agoMeh, by that argument a typosquatter that hosts a malware download is not doing anything illegal as the user who made a typo pulled the malware, not pushed.
- Macha 5y agoI think changing his own repo his one thing, but using the repo admin ability to edit another user's post reporting an issue to link to conspiracy theories does feel like an abuse of that ability.