According to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider, Amazon’s AGI Group worked around Github's 5,000 request/hr/account limits by 'encouraging' its employees to create multiple GitHub accounts and share their access credentials. By leveraging a network of accounts simultaneously, Amazon aims to condense what would have been a multi-year endeavor into a matter of weeks.
Dataconomy: The ethical implications are significant. By soliciting employees to share personal GitHub accounts, Amazon is potentially accessing data without explicit consent from GitHub or the repository owners.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 12.7 ms ] threadAccording to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider, Amazon’s AGI Group worked around Github's 5,000 request/hr/account limits by 'encouraging' its employees to create multiple GitHub accounts and share their access credentials. By leveraging a network of accounts simultaneously, Amazon aims to condense what would have been a multi-year endeavor into a matter of weeks.
Dataconomy: The ethical implications are significant. By soliciting employees to share personal GitHub accounts, Amazon is potentially accessing data without explicit consent from GitHub or the repository owners.
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