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1. Gets lots of karma from silly/fake projects 2. Send in a PR to a high profile project with obfuscated malicious code 3. ??? 4. Profit.
by gcb0 14y ago
1. Gets lots of karma from silly/fake projects
2. Send in a PR to a high profile project with obfuscated malicious code
3. ???
4. Profit.
- BCM43 14y agoWhy can't you do this now?
- gvc 14y agoYeah, I'm not really sure what his point was with that. It's not that the article proposes a god github account that call push to any repo without being watched.
- gcb0 14y agobecause you either have to: - convince everyone that your fork is better - pass the obfuscated code by the project owner who is very knowledgeable of the code base he started.
- roryokane 14y agoYou can avoid this problem by making karma repo-local.