This has nothing to do with emails serving as identities and everything to do wi...

nolok on Aug 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds did not commit this

This has nothing to do with emails serving as identities and everything to do with not believing user's input without verification.

If github was linking to user's profile based on first/last name rather than email the issue would be the exact same.