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pure speculation but i bet it’s somehow because it contains links to copyrighted/illegal content (to block it) lmao

• giancarlostoro 2y ago
  Not that I agree, but for future reference, they keep all their DMCAs public here: https://github.com/github/dmca https://github.com/github/dmca
• kevingadd 2y ago
  Yeah putting full unobfuscated links to malware or copyrighted content into your repository seems like an obvious way to get it blocked. If they masked the URLs a bit it might've been fine.
  • dopp0 2y ago
    if they were obfuscated the urls the app itself would need to process it to un-obfuscate, then the performance would take a hit, but I get your point. It's just the wrong service to host this. PS: could not check the link, as my country blocked twitter.
  • hifromwork 2y ago
    FWIW: * I often put malware samples in my repositories on github (I prepare malware analysis trainings, and I develop my trainings on github). Never got banned. * There are a ton of leaked malware sources (and/or binaries) stored on github. They are not banned * Github is full of blatantly obvious malware (at best "pentesting tools", at worst "educational projects"). Sadly, not banned too.
• btown 2y ago
  Or just plain old links to malware, because sometimes even non-interactive links in a plaintext document can be presented by an attacker with context that socially-engineers a target to copy-paste a malicious URL into a browser. I'm actually shocked that Github didn't have Adguard white-listed to prevent this from being picked up by malware scanning tools already. And it's a shame, because the whole point of scanning for malware is to protect people from falling victim to new attacks, and killing the filter repository is entirely counter to that goal.
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