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by gwillem 3531 days ago
Gitlab CEO just called me and apologized, will restore data shortly.

I am personally very sorry that GL got in a bad light here. They had misinterpreted my data and have acknowledged that. For comparison, I have heard nothing from GH over the last two days.

Gitlab, you rock.
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sytse 3531 days ago
You don't have to be sorry Willem. We just made a mistake and corrected it. Thanks allowing us to correct it and for posting about us fixing it here and on Twitter. And thanks for making the internet a safer place.
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turncharlie 3531 days ago
FWIW, if GitLab sees this: Well done. We were planning on buying their hosted service (GitHost) for my employer next week and after this story initially broke I was going to table that and use something else. This has restored our faith in GitLab as a company.
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sytse 3531 days ago
Thanks Charlie, glad to hear that. For reference our response blog post is https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/15/gitlab-reinstates-list-o...
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kefka 3531 days ago
They should be much more careful in how these types of reportings are done.

You were doing a public service of already-explited machines that are snarfing credit card numbers. And that is of great importance for anyone who buys stuff online (Like... all of us).

It also goes to show, that we need to further develop P2P type technologies like IPFS and similar stacks, to rid ourselves from monolithic companies dictatorial hands. Because what they find "unsuitable", you are no longer welcome. That's a problem, for all of us.

I had a similar problem with a VPS provider 2 weeks ago. I run IPFS on all my nodes, and comply with good netizen and compsec principles. They ToSsed me, because "my machine was scanning :4001 and they received a complaint". Bullshit. That is the chatter IPFS uses when maintaining the DHT. However, I was actually using a machine and what I paid for... and they didn't like it.

Fortunately, since all my data is via IPFS (and /ipfs and /ipns thanks to filesystem mounting), my data was already backed up and distributed. Filing a dispute with Paypal and purchasing another VPS provider was simple.

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