Re:Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
by ramesh31 on Saturday March 18, 2023 @01:21PM
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>I'm surprised that Github stars are valuable enough to buy.
They are valuable but only in orders of magnitude. A project with a few dozen stars I'll never even consider. At a few hundred, if there's truly nothing better available and it's being actively recently maintained, then maybe. But with thousands I don't even think twice to pull it in. I can definitely see how that'd be valuable to someone spreading malware.
They are valuable but only in orders of magnitude. A project with a few dozen stars I'll never even consider. At a few hundred, if there's truly nothing better available and it's being actively recently maintained, then maybe. But with thousands I don't even think twice to pull it in. I can definitely see how that'd be valuable to someone spreading malware.