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GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks

279 points · 119 comments · hermitcrab

  1. hermitcrab · · focus · HN ↗
    Author of the post here. Github finally took the offending page down approximately 10 minutes after the post appeared on the front page of HN. Total coincidence. I'm sure!

    Moral of the story. If you want even the most basic level of support from Github, you need to get on the front page of HN first.

    And it seems they are able to do things very quickly, when they want to. Bastards.

    1. koolba · · focus · HN ↗
      > Moral of the story. If you want even the most basic level of support from Github, you need to get on the front page of HN first.

      This also works for Google support.

      > And it seems they are able to do things very quickly, when they want to. Bastards.

      I wouldn’t chalk any of this up to malicious intent. I’m sure they are swamped with such requests.

      It was already a problem before agents could automatically perform these actions.

      And it’s not something you can really automate on their end either. At least not the judgement call on the removal. Imagine if there was a fully automated process and it inadvertently took down a legit project.

      1. debugnik · · focus · HN ↗
        > I wouldn’t chalk any of this up to malicious intent. I’m sure they are swamped with such requests.

        Stalling in the hope that reporters won't escalate, instead of allocating a tiny bit of their billions in profit to hiring for this, is malicious in my book.

        1. amdsn · · focus · HN ↗
          I had several small requests for moderation (deleting and banning spammers posting spam/crypto scam issues/PRs in my repos and ones I contribute to) answered within a day earlier this year after more than a decade of never needing to request moderation. I'm not defending GH here as it's obviously unacceptable that the OP's issue took this long, but they definitely do or at least did have mods. I would guess they need a lot more of them if something this serious went unaddressed, or maybe the ones I interacted with are now gone and have not been backfilled.
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