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Github could easily add its own handling for historical addresses of well-known developers, and block others from masquerading as them, once abuses like this ar
by not2b 5y ago
Github could easily add its own handling for historical addresses of well-known developers, and block others from masquerading as them, once abuses like this are reported.
- jodrellblank 5y agoOne rule for famous developers, another for all the rest of us. Completely backwards because everyone knows Linus made Git so that's no threat to him, but someone retro-claiming authorship of normal person's work is much worse because nobody knows differently. Also expecting Github support people to mediate "he said/she said" arguments about who made what commits, or owned what email address that many years ago.
- not2b 5y agoThere are some kinds of attacks that are more likely to be launched against well known people. But even for lesser-known developers their names with corresponding addresses will appear in the archives of mailing lists, and this could be used to correct the record. But if there's no record of someone at all then there isn't an easy way to detect this kind of abuse.