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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.

It is being reported that many users' repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.

There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)

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[–] 374 points 2 years ago (47 children)

Solution: create a GitHub repo with Markdown articles outlining human rights abuses by the CCP and have a large number of GitHub users star and fork the repo.

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  • [–] 87 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    That's the whole point of this: they will automatically filter that out, and this is an impotent, though well intended, gesture.

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  • [–] 77 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How will they filter it out? If they just don't mirror anything with 'forbidden' terms, we can poison repos to prevent them being mirrored. If they try to tamper with the repo histories then they'll end up breaking a load of stuff that relies on consistent git hashes.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    I feel like the effort to make such a repo and make it popular enough to be cloned and rehosted is a lot more effort than someone manually checking the results of an automated filter process.

    The "effort economy" is hugely in favor of the mirroring side

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Yeah I figured as much. It was mostly a joke. At the end of the day, if stuff is on GH, people can take it. It's barely even stealing. Unless the license disagrees of course but then you were putting a lot of trust in society by making it public in the first place.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That’s what I don’t get about this. Why does anyone care? Even this Chinese company, why do they care to clone it all? It’s already all hosted and publicly available.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Apparently they aren't respecting licenses. It's possible to have source code publicly available on GH but have it not be truly FOSS. But that's generally not a great idea since you're effectively relying on the honour system for people not to take your code.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even this Chinese company, why do they care to clone it all? It’s already all hosted and publicly available.

    Until it isn't. Perhaps they are preparing for a future war with the US and assume their access to all that code will be blocked. They want to copy it now while they have access.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The real solution is to include a few tiananmenSquare variables in all the repositories. Either they exclude the entire repository or just the specific file, in either case the entire project may be unusable.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    So... You're saying instead of "main", "app", or "core", we should change the convention to make tiananmenSquare the entry point for apps?

    Or maybe make it the filename for utils, so it'll just break

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    create a GitHub repo with Markdown articles outlining human rights abuses by the CCP

    Once you have logged "China killed 100 Zillion people! End CCP now!" in Chinese GitHub, everyone in China will realize that their lives are actually very bad and they need to do a Revolution immediately.

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  • [+] -14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Maybe we should consider the same for the US government instead of being afraid of the big Chinese boogeyman across the sea? Because I guarantee you the US has just as many, if not more. But China bad. 🙄

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    I was making a joke about abusing Chinese censorship in order to stop them cloning GitHub repos (assuming that was something you wanted to do). The joke being that the CCP suppresses information about their human rights abuses. That is not true of the US. You could absolutely make a GitHub repo detailing the crimes of the US government. Nobody will stop you.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

    Tankie whataboutism strikes again.

    Two things can be bad at the same time. Wild, I know.

    Edit: also, the point of my joke wasn't the human rights abuses. It is that these things are censored in China. So your comment is even more irrelevant. One could very easily create a repo outlining American crimes and put it on GitHub. But doing so in China with CCP crimes will have you sent to a Gulag

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    I'm not American. I don't even like America.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

    Lmao it's literally the name of a logical fallacy. How is the term itself fallacious?

    Also I harbour no racism or ill will toward the Chinese people. My girlfriend is Chinese and I care about her a lot and love learning about her culture. I just don't abide the human rights atrocities (or censorship thereof) committed by any government.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's funny how much effort you're going to debating my word choice instead of the meaning and content of my rebuttal to your stupid comment. Do you have an actual point here? Are you claiming that what you were doing above wasn't whataboutism? That it's somehow a valid counterpoint to my joke about CCP censorship to say that the US also does bad things?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Hahahahahahahaha, oh man, how much you spend on a psychologist every month?

    Also, what you're doing is called sophistry, specifically moving the goal posts (which predates the US by about 1000 years).

    You later move on to attacking the person, rather than the argument (more sophistry).

    You should probably educate yourself lest you expose the clown inside.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    1.it's a euphemism for "And You Are Lynching Negroes" - that's literally what people used to say instead of whataboutism

    lol who do you think was saying this, and how is "whataboutism" in any way of a euphemism for it? Did you even bother to read the article you linked?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    America didn't drop anything because they weren't saying it in the first place, the Soviets were. America also aren't the ones that coined a new phrase for it, British royalists were, who probably had no knowledge of the Russian phrase. All of this was explained in the article you linked.

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