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avaeryesterday at 9:40 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why 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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eddythompson80yesterday at 10:15 PM

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?"

sgskinnertoday 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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