Tell HN: OpenBB scraping GitHub emails for marketing spam
Yes, these kinds of marketing tactics are disgusting and despicable, but the broader issue is why does Github facilitate them by making user emails discoverable? There are tools like github-email [1], which allow you to:<p>> Retrieve a GitHub user's email even if it's not public. Pulls info from Github user, NPM, activity commits, owned repo commit activity.<p>Why does Github have so many ways to exfiltrate a user's email address?<p>[1]<a href="https://github.com/paulirish/github-email" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/paulirish/github-email</a>