How I Got 5,000 GitHub Followers In Less Than 24 Hours

It's stuff like this that causes site owners to require a captcha or throttle based on IP. Anyone can create 5000 fake accounts with a script, so there's nothing too original here. Based on the blog title, I thought they might've discovered an interesting XSS exploit, or social engineering technique.

Generating 5000 fake accounts falls into the script kiddie level of originality.

I'm sure there's some developer at Github right now tasked with locating these fake accounts and deleting them.

"Generating 5000 fake accounts falls into the script kiddie level of originality."

Wasn't really trying to be very "leet" with this hack, was just something fun I decided to do. Also deleting the accounts wouldn't be incredibly hard to do at all anyways.

I expected this type of feedback I suppose, the point wasn't to show a security vulnerability in GitHub. Was more just a lighthearted post.

I'm still trying to figure out why this is cool.

It's not cool.

Exactly.

In my youth I did much worse than this, but github... There is a saying, don't shit where u sleep...