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Re:The Blueprint of a North Korean Attack on Open-Source by WalterGR on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:34PM (#47679484)
> GitHub's UI truncates long lines so the malicious string is literally invisible when scrolling through the file.

It looks like the screen recording was made on a Mac. Does your browser (Chrome?) respect the OS-wide ‘Always show scroll bars’ setting?

After all, it’s not that GitHub is “truncating” the lines, it’s that scroll bars aren’t visible - so it’s not immediately obvious that there’s code outside of the viewport.

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Re:The Blueprint of a North Korean Attack on Open-Source by sysguest on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:21PM (#47680859)
> it’s that scroll bars aren’t visible

well truncating or not, that seems to be a major security UI issue...?

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