FOSS accused of “abuse” by Telefonica because 1998 signed code with corp email

scanny · 3 years ago

Link is down, archive.org copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20230109174817/https://github.co...

voakbasda · 3 years ago

Why did it get removed? This kind of thing needs to be left up as evidence of their incompetence and as a warning to others that would follow in their footsteps.

joshumax · 3 years ago

Sorry, I think this might tangentially be my fault. I know someone who works on the GitHub team and let them know about the situation via IM. A few minutes later both the account and the issue disappeared.

Nextgrid · 3 years ago

This is exactly the level of competence I'd expect from "Telefónica Cybersecurity & Cloud Tech". The following comment is a good rebuttal to these idiots: https://github.com/steve-m/speedport_neo_source/issues/1#iss...

anthk · 3 years ago

Cesar Alierta wouldn't like your comment.

Nextgrid · 3 years ago

I don't think most big consultancies would like any of my comments!

greatgib · 3 years ago

The most stupid things are probably that:

- the employee might not even work there, so the email not being valid anymore, the security argument looks lame

- contributions were used to be done by email, so the email address will be public anyway

geo-matik · 3 years ago

Streisand effect

Scaevolus · 3 years ago

This is flagging an email in an old version of OpenSSL.

The offending file is simply a DES speed benchmark submitted by this person: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/openssl/+/9c...

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gattanimell5 · 3 years ago

mr paco garcia about to get arrested

hgsgm · 3 years ago

Can someone translate the title into English?

db48x · 3 years ago

25 years ago someone put their corporate email address in some comments in the source code of this project. Now that company has outsourced their reputation to the lowest bidder, who is claiming that the address reveals secret or private information about the internal network of the corporation.