Ask HN: Are there bots on GitHub too? 3 points by bufrsh 6y ago ↗ HN Someone starred/forked a repository a public repo of mine. Upon checking, https://github.com/isgasho seems to be forking primarily Go and Rust code repos, and has done so for 5K+ repos. Is that a bot?
[–] rvz 6y ago ↗ Always has been.Whenever there's a public developer API for a service, there's a high chance you'll encounter a 'bot'.
[–] bdcravens 6y ago ↗ Leak AWS credentials onto a public repo and you’ll get a fast, and expensive, answer to that question. [–] TwelveNights 6y ago ↗ Any credentials that are pushed to GitHub are as good as immediately compromised.
[–] TwelveNights 6y ago ↗ Any credentials that are pushed to GitHub are as good as immediately compromised.
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