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There's this weird github repository

https://github.com/OOOO00000000OOOO/OOOO00000000OOOO

I noticed there was someone attempting to proxy to this repository on my site, causing it to show up in the logs. It was detected as spam but this repo doesn't look like it's built by some normal spammy company. The owner has gone through great lengths to try to stay anonymous. And I can't make out what the repo is or what it's for. Does anyone know or have any ideas?

Thanks

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[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Most of the links don't work anymore, so they probably saw this and felt doxed.

they actually didn't when I grabbed them either but I kept them for posterity. Important to note some of these things are almost 10 years old, so there's certainly the rot of not maintaining them, free services pruning, etc. That being said, it's likely why they duplicate their 7GB backup repo all over the place