alt Hacker NewsWhy can't GitHub get on the case and just block any repo where the README matches the regex? I thought they'd have learned their lesson the last time it happened.
This malware isn't even trying. Then again it's Microsoft so they're not even trying either.
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bbor • today at 4:34 AM
1. This happened less than 24 hours ago.
2. This is just one of the four techniques the worm uses to phone home.
sgskinner • today at 1:18 AM
“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.”
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6 minutes later an HN submission "GitHub blocks your account if you mention X in the README" with a top comment "This is absurd, are they just doing regex matching to check for malware?"