GitHub Gets Supboena to Reveal the Identity of Twitter Source Code Leaker
The court has ordered GitHub to name the person who posted excerpts of Twitter’s source code on its repositories.
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The court has ordered GitHub to name the person who posted excerpts of Twitter’s source code on its repositories.
A copyright infringement notice was sent to GitHub, with a request to remove the leaked source code on its platform.
The leaked source code has reportedly been public for months.
Twitter says its source code was leaked by an unknown user on the popular open-source code collaboration platform GitHub. The social media giant requested a
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