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douglasg14b ,
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Because they obviously didn’t read the article?

Unless you only use software and libraries hosted on gitlab, which you don’t, then that’s immaterial to this problem. GitHub is a target because of it’s size, Gitlab and friends are seemingly just as vulnerable to this sort of attack, which ONLY works because of human nature. Which last I checked is the same regardless of platform…

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