In a recent educational trick, curl contributor James Fuller submitted a pull-request to the project in which he suggested a larger cleanup of a set of scripts. In a later presentation, he could show us how not a single human reviewer in the team nor any CI job had spotted or remarked on one of … Continue reading Detecting malicious Unicode →
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-01-github-now-provides-a-warning-about-hidden-unicode-text/ since may 1st (OP is from may 16th)
Ah, I see. GitHub reached out to Daniel saying “hey we’re actually doing that” not because it was a reaction to the post.
It’s possible their communication happened before that, and it just took a while to write and post OP post. 16 days is not that long or delayed. I haven’t checked the dates of the commits in question though.