CyberFrogJul 19, 2025
that arell.ai website which was cloning mastodon users for AI training is running via github pages, anyone know how I can find the repository and username associated with a github pages website? there is no links in the HTML but the server IP addresses all belong to github, and the favicon 404 page is served by github (with GH branding)
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
I found the repository blonging to this org, the website is owned by a company in the state of Delaware, USA, named "Arell Inc", the github contributors are celeste-arell and cmenders (who uses GPG Key ID: B5690EEEBB952194 for commits)

just in case anyone wants to dig further

EDIT: this GPG key belongs to github and exists because the user created changes via the web interface at github.com, it DOES NOT belong to the user, just to avoid any confusion here
Show threadCyberFrog
oh also this organization is only one month old on github, so this is all very new, the GPG key for cmenders was verified with GH Jul 18, 2025

EDIT: this GPG key belongs to github and exists because the user created changes via the web interface at github.com, it DOES NOT belong to the user, just to avoid any confusion here
Jul 19, 2025 at 7:36pmWeb
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
cmenders has an account at https://github.com/cmenders

they appear to be a stanford student studying computer science, probably just dumb kids, they cloned a learning repository from stanford's CS153 intro course
cmenders - Overview

cmenders has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
their SSH keys can be found via github here https://github.com/cmenders.keys

reproduced for historical reasons, and attached to the post as a TXT file note
Show threadCyberFrogJul 19, 2025
I could probably go further but I think it would be mean to the random university students behind this to bother them more, hopefully they understand not to fuck with people and clone their accounts for AI training like this next time