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This has been reported many times.

http://www.jayhuang.org/blog/tag/impersonating/

If you want real verification, sign your commit with GPG/PGP.

Some people don't use real email address for privacy reason (not sure if email address is really required to commit). Another reason why Github may not want to implement verification is all the people you have written code with... like when you want to push an existing repo to Github. Why? Because Git as a tool is pretty good at rewriting history (unlike Mercurial).

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