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Comment by davidcrowe

1 day ago

Same thing happened to one of my repos in Feb. I wrote up the details with screenshots.

https://reducibl.com/writing/someone-used-my-repo-to-distrib...

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KolmogorovComp  2 hours ago

Thanks for the writing, which would have been even better had it been written by a human.

  • theorchid  1 hour ago

    Why do you think it wasn't written by a human?

    • KolmogorovComp  11 minutes ago

      Have you read the article?

      > that’s not a developer contributing to open source. that’s someone manufacturing the appearance of activity.

      > the attacker’s own profile? no bio, no avatar, 499 contributions crammed into january–february 2026.

      > this wasn’t random

      > i reported the repo to github. the ticket is open. but this raises a question i keep coming back to