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by falqun 697 days ago
The deletion of the account would not delete commits associated with it. The commit would still contain everything potentially malicious, plus a reference to an account that would be deleted. Which is actually worse, you cant track what code a malicious actor has contributed (easily). So the correct thing to do is take away login / deactivate the account, and then start going through all contributions and check them via the account that references all of this.
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Would be cool if there was a big warning icon with "ACCOUNT LOCKED: STATE ACTOR" like for cheaters on chess websites