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Another gem:

RRREEEEEEEE> I noticed you missed a doctype in your html page. In order for web browsers to know what type of html to render you should include a doctype. Thanks!

matrixnotorg> @RRREEEEEEEE Thank you, I will consider that for the next release

Edit: it got deleted

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Wait, did Github delete matrixnotorg's profile or did matrixnotorg?

If Github deleted that profile, I don't really see that as being very hacker-friendly.

Although 'hacker' is often used as a positive term on HN, breaking into a company's production server is clearly illegal activity and should not be condoned. If Github deleted the account, they are simply acting in accordance to published TOS & policy.

If the attacker placed sensitive information on Github, that would indeed warrant a deletion of the account. However from what I saw from the archives, the attacker merely published details about Matrix.org's infrastructure and its vulnerabilities. Is that something that's against Github's ToS?

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