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Kite is plainly a bad actor. Sublime and GitHub/Atom should be taking steps to permanently remove them and the things they're infecting from their respective ecosystems

We now know of 3 different popular addons they've hijacked in various ways to snoop on code and to build up their business.

If one company is doing this, it makes me very concerned what else is going on, and what else is coming.



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