[Catalog-sig] bad package that's fishing bitbucket emails

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Michael Foord wrote:
> Hello mt,
> 
> It doesn't appear to be a clone, but embedding bitbucket - and the Python package *seems* genuine. 

The site hosts an illegal copy of the bitbucket site and redirects the logins
not to bitbucket, but to the code.thejeshgn.com:

http://code.thejeshgn.com/account/signin/

Needless to mention that the login info is sent in clear as well...

I think we should inform Atlassian about this.

> The correct place to report issues with pypi is the tracker (no-one on this webmaster alias is involved in the administration of pypi):
> 
> 	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=66150&atid=513503
> 
> For *discussing* PyPI issues, which seems wise for this particular question, the catalog-sig email list is the right place:
> 
> 	http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/catalog-sig/
> 
> I've copied them in on this email
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Michael Foord
> 
> On 29 Mar 2012, at 11:15, m t wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>> this package in pypi doesn't redirect to bitbucket, but a cloned site that fishes bitbucket emails:
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Octopoda/.0.1
>>
>> might want to look into it,
>> mt
>>
> 
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