Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

Post by renewiltord » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 6:15 AM UTC

dpedu wrote: post #27

quickthrower2 wrote: post #25

Makes me think: Interesting spam vector: create a PR advertising whatever and then @ a bunch of people you scraped. Also interesting attack vector: get a easily mistaken @ name and then see what you become reviewer on. Add malicious code to that PR and merge. Edit: also what is stupid is at work when setting up your organisation security access you can add anyone globally in the combo search. No org-only filter is ev…

Some people have done it by accident: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users [2022] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061

Post by rounakdatta » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 6:16 AM UTC

Post by hinkley » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 6:19 AM UTC

fukawi2 wrote: post #28

We had a bug recently where one of our internal bots didn't correctly parse usernames with hyphens in them, so instead of tagging @tom-jones, it would tag @tom Sorry everyone randomly pinged by our bot.

Post by peterpost2 » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 6:21 AM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #53

qingcharles wrote: post #50

I once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.

Wild that people actually call those numbers.

Post by SenHeng » Thu, Jul 27, 2023, 6:23 AM UTC

petesergeant wrote: post #17

I used to have an email similar to ps@qs.com, and would get a fair amount of email suggesting people would use that as their made up email. In a similar vein I’d like to apologise to knobs@bobs.com for the amount of captive portal spam you receive on my behalf