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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 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.

Looks like he cloned bitbucket for all his bitbucket repos:

http://code.thejeshgn.com/

and happily proxies requests through his site.

>> 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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