New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?

Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?
55 by joshmn | 28 comments on Hacker News.
Hi friends, The skinny is this: I went to prison, all my personal items were stolen IRL and the same person changed a bunch of my passwords. Subsequently, I can't recover my GitHub account. I have recovered most of my digital assets by proving I am me. Recovering my GitHub has proven to be more painful than Google's treatment regarding my Google Workspace. I have the original phone number associated with my account, and can verify a bunch of private repos that are associated with my account—even the number of commits on one of them (almost 6900). I can't, however, provide any 2FA codes or backup codes because they are printed on paper that has, I assume, been destroyed. I maintain two relatively popular Ruby packages that have gone stale since I've been gone, and there are projects my GitHub there that I was working on prior to my incarceration—including a SaaS I had hoped to launch post-prison and two books I was ready to publish. Having said, just opening another account isn't exactly the option I want to take. I've opened a ticket, but I'm getting the "shit out of luck because we don't know you are you" treatment. I understand that security is important, but if one can prove they are them, what's the point? Are there other avenues I have that I haven't explored yet?

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