Matthew Garrett's Analysis of Automatix

[GeneralZod]

In otherwords: Automatix is/was pulling stuff from other repos without the repo-owner's consent, or knowledge.

Once I re-hosted a .deb of avidemux as a favour to someone on the forums, and forgot all about it. Next month, my hosting bandwidth suddenly reached its limit and got cut off.

Turns out that the deb file on my personal hosting had been incorporated into Automatix without anyone asking me and burnt up several gigabytes of bandwidth in a couple of weeks(!)

[RAV TUX]

Once I re-hosted a .deb of avidemux as a favour to someone on the forums, and forgot all about it. Next month, my hosting bandwidth suddenly reached its limit and got cut off.

Turns out that the deb file on my personal hosting had been incorporated into Automatix without anyone asking me and burnt up several gigabytes of bandwidth in a couple of weeks(!)

Wow!