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‘The lawsuit also makes a bold claim that "GitHub actively encourages (at least) friendly hacking." It then links to a GitHub repository named "Awesome Hacking.”[0]’

Oh brother.

[0] https://github.com/Hack-with-Github/Awesome-Hacking

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While I do think that "hacking" is less demonized than it was circa "Hackers", it is not surprising that the attitude around a lawsuit is a little outdated. I'm just glad the target is an entity with sufficient resources to defend such a spurious accusation - a similar suit could probably destroy a smaller company.

"A collection of awesome lists for hackers, pentesters & security researchers."

They are not using "hacker" in the "Hacker News" sense of the word, they are using meaning breaking into some system. So no "oh brother" moment here.

So? Trying to break into a system can be the only way to know it's reasonably secure. This is like saying locksmiths are bad. Preventing this makes systems _less_ secure, defeating the point of trying to ensure privacy.

It doesn't even appear to be an official GitHub page (Hack with GitHub - location: Bangalore, India, email: hackwithgithub@gmail.com). Just because someone creates an "X-with-Github" repository, it doesn't GitHub are actively encouraging X.

It’s a repository to help people learn computer security. Of course this is an “oh brother” moment.

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