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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)

submitted 5 months ago by 0x815@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.

It is being reported that many users' repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.

There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)

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[–] callmepk@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think the major issue is here is that they are “mirroring” with the same username without clear indicating they are mirrors and they are modifying all the github links in Readme to GitCode. But if you want to claim your project, they want to only comment using the issue section of a project which requires account; but then you have to have a Chinese phone number to register account, and you will automatically get a Huawei Cloud account when you registering it

[–] uis@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

All code provided there requires “coins” to download, even they are open-sourced code; it was reported multiple people in China got scammed via CSDN;

You have to login to copy code on the post, and sometimes hides half the post to require you to login to read.

Oh fuck! Capitalism with beastly grin strikes back.