> The author history was harder to understand. An earlier package file listed Pierre-Louis Favreau, Jean-Pierre Lo, and Nicolas Dehandschoewercker. The version that replaced it removed all three names and substituted another author. The only change to the files was the author list. GitHub’s activity record shows that the replacement happened through a force push in August, before our investigation this September.
Wow, this looks pretty damning. I can't imagine Google seeing this as worth the risks. Is an innocent explanation possible here?
https://github.com/google/artemis/commit/371aa6df56880643da5...
They're trying to cover it up now
Is that a coverup - eg. are they retroactively rewriting old comments - or are they simply jumping on this and trying to correct the problem?
(Although I would say it isn't a very good-faith effort to address the issue if they don't put back the author acknowledgements they removed)
> The author history was harder to understand. An earlier package file listed Pierre-Louis Favreau, Jean-Pierre Lo, and Nicolas Dehandschoewercker. The version that replaced it removed all three names and substituted another author. The only change to the files was the author list. GitHub’s activity record shows that the replacement happened through a force push in August, before our investigation this September.
Wow, this looks pretty damning. I can't imagine Google seeing this as worth the risks. Is an innocent explanation possible here?
When you say "don't be evil"; just where is your threshold Google?
Not around since 2015, and desperately needed since around 2018-2019 with those military contracts and silos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
They removed that years ago.
I'd like to know how many imposters work in big tech.