Hackers use Github vulnerability to pretend to be Linus and say they will release metaverse system

On the evening of January 26, a message signed by ‘the father of Linux’ Linus appeared on Github, saying that the metaverse system MetaSoft would be released, which would be greater than Linux and Git, but nothing has been launched since then. Then the reporter checked the relevant information and found that someone may have used the Github loophole to disguise as Linus.

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An industry insider told The Paper, There are some technically strange things about this. For example, this notice is published in a downstream repository (forked) of the Linux software repository and has not been submitted to the branch of the main Linux repository. If this is Really, why put it under the Linux repository instead of opening a new one?

Linux (full name GNU/Linux) was first released by Linus Benedict Torvalds in 1991 as a free-to-use and freely disseminated UNIX-like operating system. Called the opening of the Linux era, it has had a profound impact on the Internet so far.

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