Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>br00t4c</span></a></span> that is nothing new.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a>, like any public platform that allows to store data, can be <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/abused" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abused</span></a> for malicious use.</p><ul><li>Whilst GitHub doesn't ban <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/malware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>malware</span></a> <em>per-se</em>, it shure as hell bans <em>the use of GitHub to distribute and facilitate</em> it or <em>otherwise cause harm, damages and liabilities for GitHub, 3rd parties and other users</em> as per their <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ToS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToS</span></a>.</li></ul><p>They do also <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/scan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scan</span></a> for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/KnownMalware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KnownMalware</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/DMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DMCA</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/violations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>violations</span></a> in a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ContentID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ContentID</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/signature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>signature</span></a>/#checksum-based <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/scanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scanning</span></a> type to prevent blatant <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abuse</span></a> by <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Skiddies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Skiddies</span></a>.</p>