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by jperras 944 days ago
As charcircuit figured out, the username is/was `malware`. They deactivated it in 2018 without any explanation, and even my contacts at Github at the time couldn't quite figure out why it was happening.

My only thought was that it was during the MSFT acquisition due diligence, and my username was an unfortunate victim of whatever compliance requirements they had to satisfy.

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Honestly the url does not look good. I can see why they wouldn't want it showing up in logs or across the internet. Maybe it was getting hit by virus scanners or other Internet filtering as well.