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Tools2026-08-12 · source-backed
Issue #78431, filed August 11 against v2.1.212, with a second reporter confirming via session logs: curl -s -H "User-Agent: ashurbanipal-publish-check (email@redacted)" https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/..., five occurrences in one hour (GitHub). It's following the polite-crawler convention of identifying yourself to an API. It's doing so by spending the user's PII, to third-party hosts, with no prompt.
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