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Re:GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach by dfcmt on Sunday August 04, 2019 @11:25AM (#20607066)
"A collection of awesome lists for hackers, pentesters & security researchers."

They are not using "hacker" in the "Hacker News" sense of the word, they are using meaning breaking into some system. So no "oh brother" moment here.

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Re:GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach by stordoff on Sunday August 04, 2019 @01:36PM (#20607963)
So? Trying to break into a system can be the only way to know it's reasonably secure. This is like saying locksmiths are bad. Preventing this makes systems _less_ secure, defeating the point of trying to ensure privacy.

It doesn't even appear to be an official GitHub page (Hack with GitHub - location: Bangalore, India, email: [email protected]). Just because someone creates an "X-with-Github" repository, it doesn't GitHub are actively encouraging X.

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Re:GitHub sued for aiding hacking in Capital One breach by buzzerbetrayed on Sunday August 04, 2019 @01:43PM (#20608020)
It’s a repository to help people learn computer security. Of course this is an “oh brother” moment.
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