Undoing original retweet and quote-tweeting to correct, instead.

I have yet to find a single real GH org; it's all copies with 0 stars, created in the last 6-10 days.

Still something @github needs to cleanse, but far, far more limited than the quoted tweet makes it sound.

https://twitter.com/stephenlacy/status/1554697077430505473

@github As this is making the rounds, some more context:

This appears to be an extremely broad, low value, low effort, and likely low impact attack.

Given two major *coin attacks in the last 24 hours or so, infosec news gets more attention than usual.

I spent ~15 years of my life as freenode staff.

For a year or so I did most if not all user support alone.

In 2006/2007, I helped save it from hostile takeover.

There is no moral, and likely no legal, way for it to have been sold.

I am numb from pain.

irc.libera.chat

https://twitter.com/rfc1036/status/1394987628756357123

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(It used to be really, really easy to accidentally drop your own nick doing end user support, so a few of us had/still have reg times reset by hand)