They're generally extremely quick about this if you ping ~anyone on the security team with the offending url and a link to the real repo. There is a long ongoing game of cat & mouse against malware in repackaged things like first party windows utilities to leverage the signed binaries.

Describes pretty much any of the big companies. For example, I have seen numerous times people got their account locked on Google, or their app stuck in limbo at Apple, and then after post becomes viral all problems get solved.

> 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.

This was not my experience at all. Someone on the bitchat android commented with a virus, reported it and was taken down 2 hours later

It might not be a willingness issue as much as a bandwidth issue.

Same goes for all companies bigger than a startup. The first line of support is AI, the second line is clueless, and the third level is powerless. HN is the only way to reach a human with both ability and willingness to help

Just send DMCA if you want their attention, they act harshly and quickly. Even when it's false one.