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Be thankful you only receive automated security reports about an open .git directory. There is some guy/company who goes around running a web spider connected to some shitty antivirus which automatically submits false abuse reports to site ISPs claiming that their customers are hosting viruses. This happened to me twice; I think after the second time my ISP started rejecting these reports outright since I haven’t seen any new ones for a few years now, even though they’re clearly still at it (or, maybe, finally stopped last year after getting DDoSed?)[0].

Automated security scanning by people who don’t know what they are doing has become an enormous hassle in so many ways and really is damaging the ability to find and handle true threats.

[0] https://twitter.com/badlogicgames/status/1267850389942042625




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