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Shut the fuck up.

How many companies get hacked regularly like this but keep it under the rug? You think FaceBook's never been exploited? TurboTax? Mint? Stripe? PayPal? Shopify? Tumblr? Pick your app that "so so so so many businesses" use regularly, and I guarantee something like this has happened with all of them.

But were they open about it?

GitHub's been open the whole time.

Your post is like saying "All criminals are stupid". This is ridiculous, as the only sample you know of and can work with are the criminals who have been caught. You don't know how many other criminals are out there getting away with their crimes, because...they haven't been caught yet.

Who knows how many other companies have had hacks like this in the past two months alone, for example? I don't, and neither do you.

But GitHub, as an open, honest company that so so so many of use regularly (which means we know right away when there's a problem, especially with a hugely popular repo like Rails/rails) has been in the spotlight since the second this happened.

GitHub, in my opinion, has acted really cool about this. They addressed the issue, explained what the issue is, patched the hole, and even reinstated the hacker's account. DHH addressed the issue in twitter, other people in the community have admitted they fucked up, and now we as a community can work on fixing this.

That doesn't sound like "Letting us all down".

Someone who expects everything to work perfectly all the time and have no vulnerabilities is someone will be let down by anything, a pessimist, and stupid. And certainly not worthy of the front page of Hacker News.




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