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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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[–] 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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