My main expertise is Java and all Java related but now I do Node.js and TypeScript on backend. I’m 34 and I’ve got a wife a daughter and big ass 4WD that I use to tour Australian Outback.
Education
In mysterious Russia. I’m actually a rail road electrical automation engineer by trade.
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
That "GitHub too" thread is pretty light on details. Not really seeing anything that provides any indication of the actual risk-scenario. Is there any other place you've seen mention of an enterprise getting GitHub to hijack (or neuter) an account – especially an account whose primary address (etc.) was outside the company's control?
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense with anything in the GitHub organization features of today. Maybe there was something broken in it's early days that made this possible?
Or maybe there's a lot more to this story that he's not telling us.
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Hello, Mike! Here's a comment on Hackernews about GitHub in a thread about Trello: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22874508
This where I got my "GitHub too" info from.
That "GitHub too" thread is pretty light on details. Not really seeing anything that provides any indication of the actual risk-scenario. Is there any other place you've seen mention of an enterprise getting GitHub to hijack (or neuter) an account – especially an account whose primary address (etc.) was outside the company's control?
Yeah, that doesn't make any sense with anything in the GitHub organization features of today. Maybe there was something broken in it's early days that made this possible?
Or maybe there's a lot more to this story that he's not telling us.