Github Security is Broken

“Late last week, a flaw in the underlying github ruby code was
discovered and reported to github. Github disagreed with the
severity and closed the bug without fixing it, which led to one of
the best back/forth discussions I’ve ever seen in an open forum
about a security issue. You see the researcher that discovered the
flaw, Egor Homakov didn’t stay quiet, he kept pushing the
issue.

For his efforts, Github didn’t reward Homakov, instead they
suspended him from Github.

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