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by jrflowers 20 days ago
> forcing them to pack up and move shop to GitLab instead.

https://gitlab.com/nightmare-eclipse

Blocked user @nightmare-eclipse

Looks like they’re banned on GitLab as as well?

2 comments

I suspect MS threatened them with a SmartScreen blackhole for the domain, I'm not surprised they pulled it.
I don’t like the idea Microsoft can bully other websites into blocking content they don’t like.
Do we have any evidence they did that other than the comment you replied to speculating?
Yes they definitely did that. Find evidence to the contrary.
Is this sarcasm? Or are you saying that the onus of providing proof is not on the those making the claim, but instead that the onus of proof is on those who did not make the claim?
You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to draw that conclusion.
Sure you can provide an alternative explanation?

Otherwise, that's the best we have.

Are there any copies of what he supposedly posted? I have a hard time believing someone posted groundbreaking exploits to two separate Git websites and not a single person cloned them.

I also think it’s funny that people are alleging .gov conspiracies that end in a publicly hosted “blocked user” page instead of just 404-ing or something.

Forks are still alive on github, so it seems unlikely microsoft did this to suppress the code. Unless they are wildly incompetent, which I don't want to outright reject as a possibility.

https://github.com/xiaoji235/bitlocker-bypass-tool-for-winre

Unfortunately I don't think there is any way to see a list of all the forks now that the main repo is dead, but you can search the phrase "A huge thanks to MORSE, MSTIC and Microsoft GHOST for making this public disclosure possible" to find more copies.