6 minutes later an HN submission "GitHub blocks your account if you mention X in the README" with a top comment "This is absurd, are they just doing regex matching to check for malware?"

1. This happened less than 24 hours ago.

2. This is just one of the four techniques the worm uses to phone home.

“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.”