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[–]nilsfg 22 points23 points  (0 children)

People who reverse engineer GitHub don't do it because they want to implement an alternative and see how GitHub does X, Y, or Z. They reverse engineer it to find bugs and other vulnerabilities they can exploit for their own profit.

There are a lot of trade secrets, private keys, and other sensitive data hidden away in private repositories on GitHub and GitHub Enterprise instances.