PHP's Git Server Compromised, Now Switching To GitHub

[Volta]

Let's have a dozen comments how GitHub is owned and run by an evil anti-open-source company.

Very first post and this POS is trolling.

[matsukan]

Why it's import to know ? My understand is that there is two git commit's made by internal user via cli. So hole server was compromised by hacker(s) .

[caligula]

Did they run php on that server?

[uid313]

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.

Well, GitLab supports CI and issues too.

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

It's possible to sign commits too, so there's one good method of ensuring authenticity of code. I don't think Microsoft will do something evil like introducing malicious commits, but "accidentally" deleting the repo or slowing access to it and causing pandemonium is totally within their reach.

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.

[royce]

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

Please do tell us why on earth would microsoft do something like that.

[skeevy420]

Everyone here is complaining about the use of Github, and here I am thinking "are we all just going to ignore the kind of asshole who would perform this hack in the first place?"
Really, hacking PHP is the same sort of thing as holding a charity for ransom. Yeah, you'll get something out of it, but it's really sad and pathetic.

That's like this article I was reading yesterday about how Amazon workers are peeing in bottles and pooping in sacks; mostly drivers, but line workers too. Most of the comments were some form of "well I worked construction/trucking/crappy job and we pooped/peed in odd places so suck it up" and my first thought was "y'all are the problem. I've worked those jobs, did my business in those places, and, big difference, didn't feel like I had to do it because I was so stressed for time".

When you work construction and you're doing something at a house in the woods miles from civilization, 1, you agree to that beforehand, 2, you can choose to drive your happy ass to a gas station in lieu of pooping in the woods, 3, doing construction I never had to shit in a bag on camera next to a full spread of telemetry sensors. Instead of feeling empathy for people who feel so stressed and pressed for time that they'll drive around with a shit sack the collective group has the viewpoint of "because we had it shitty you should have it shitty too" instead of "Generations of horrible working conditions, something has to change".

[anarki2]

Lets have a dumb naive comment on how putting all your eggs in someone elses server (especially Microsoft's) is a good idea.

Edit: Oh, birdie beat me to it

Now Microsoft is the only malicious entity that can sabotage the PHP source.

Are you really trying to imply that

1) using any cloud service is irresponsible, right under the news that they f*cked up royally when hosting it on their own?
2) Microsoft is somehow substantially, inherently less trusted for cloud services than other cloud providers (for unspecified reasons)?
3) git doesn't allow you to set up mirrors for your repo?

[skeevy420]

Well it is not like they are stuck on GitHub and have vendor-lock in. Git is distributed, so it is just one host, they can easily just migrate to GitLab or some other host if they want to.

Git is distributed. Github is a service that offer features that can in-turn act as a vendor lock-in if you can't find those same features with other Git Distributors. That isn't a pro or con against Github. That's just how services work in general.

My argument is that if they get set in Github's ways then "easily just migrate" might not be so "easily" for them. For example, I prefer the UI of Hub over Lab. I can use both but I prefer Hub.

[schmidtbag]

Everyone here is complaining about the use of Github, and here I am thinking "are we all just going to ignore the kind of asshole who would perform this hack in the first place?"
Really, hacking PHP is the same sort of thing as holding a charity for ransom. Yeah, you'll get something out of it, but it's really sad and pathetic.