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Originally posted by kpedersen View Post
In all fairness, I hope they do. Mirror the Git repo to all (GitLab, BitBucket and private local) and cross check between each periodically. I don't trust Microsoft in a number of ways. Their incompetence with security is probably most relevant for this however.
This is further exacerbated by the fact that Git doesn't enforce a user account system so it is very easy to impersonate other users simply changing the user.name and user.email. The only solution for this is a commit hook which I don't believe Microsoft will implement.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...f-another-user
Which means we are at the whims of that dumb oauth stuff that Microsoft is faffing around with on GitHub or (hopefully) public SSH keys that I am sure Microsoft will accidentally forget to authenticate / challenge against when push comes to shove. Perhaps they will cite improved performance if they "skip that key nonsense" haha
Remember, there's a reason Microsoft doesn't post their internal code on Google Code, and Google's AOSP and proprietary software isn't on Github. There's a reason Facebook doesn't do Google login, and why Google doesn't do Facebook login. Lots of others have also switched away from depending on Google and Facebook, because they can easily cut off access and screw you while providing whimsical reasons.
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Originally posted by zcansi View Post
You will note they are also moving to GitHub's authentication and authorization system as part of the move.
They also mention that now they can merge pull requests from the web interface. Will they also be doing code reviews via the web interface perhaps?
And of course, they may want to use GitHub's CI and GitHub Issues, because they have such nice integration.
How's that migration looking now? Not so easy anymore.
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Is sad that the 1st solution most companies or OS foundations opt these days is to move to the cloud when they got issues or get compromised.
Is not like Microsoft or any other company services haven’t been hacked or taken offline due to issues, both Exchange and Sharepoint coming to my mind.
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Originally posted by kpedersen View Post
In all fairness, I hope they do. Mirror the Git repo to all (GitLab, BitBucket and private local) and cross check between each periodically. I don't trust Microsoft in a number of ways. Their incompetence with security is probably most relevant for this however.
This is further exacerbated by the fact that Git doesn't enforce a user account system so it is very easy to impersonate other users simply changing the user.name and user.email. The only solution for this is a commit hook which I don't believe Microsoft will implement.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...f-another-user
Which means we are at the whims of that dumb oauth stuff that Microsoft is faffing around with on GitHub or (hopefully) public SSH keys that I am sure Microsoft will accidentally forget to authenticate / challenge against when push comes to shove. Perhaps they will cite improved performance if they "skip that key nonsense" haha
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Originally posted by kpedersen View Post
Meanwhile open source projects are getting hacked left and right almost on a monthly basis. We have had the breaches of:- Fedora (a major breach)
- The Linux Kernel (a major breach)
- Debian Wiki
- OpenSuse website
- Multiple NPM/Ruby modules
- PHP (a major breach)
Someone is again deleting my comments even though I've long stopped with personal attacks. Sigh. OK, I'm out of this discussion.
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Originally posted by kpedersen View PostNow Microsoft is the only malicious entity that can sabotage the PHP source.
Last edited by torsionbar28; 29 March 2021, 12:47 PM.
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