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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by RubenSandwich on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:11AM (#14836918)
They use machine learning to see which code patterns follow other code patterns and then make suggests based on that. "Oh, I see you've written X. Most people who write X follow it with Y."

However, this requires reading people code that they upload to their servers. See their privacy policy here: https://kite.com/privacy.

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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by mirekrusin on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:51AM (#14837086)
Yes, that's the scary bit that not a single developer will/should agree with. Auto-complete suggestions for `password = ` anybody?
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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by onion2k on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:36AM (#14837279)
I wonder if it'd be possible to use their service to inject a backdoor in to someone else's code.
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Re:How a VC-funded company is undermining the open-source co... by mirekrusin on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:08AM (#14837428)
You just need to compromise their database and you should have access to plenty of source code running around, possibly with secrets/credentials etc - a disneyland for bad guys.
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