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>Just a couple of years ago some kid gained access to every repo on github.

Very curious to know more about this. What exactly are you talking about? Closest thing I could find is this[0], but you said "couple of years ago".

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-gains-access-to-a-small...




No, not that.

Another kid, got access to every single private github repo.

It was on hackernews, he declared it, made a write up about it and got given a pretty small bounty from github. Google it, otherwise I guess the net was scrubbed of it. I follow him on twitter but yeah just google more and you should find out all about it.

I was always surprised it wasn't a much bigger deal. Basically since then I think any company ( most that I work for ) are clinically insane to upload their proprietary code to the site.

On a related note - was it not just a couple of weeks ago people were concerned the codespaces system is using other peoples proprietary code? ( I havent kept up to that on that one so not sure if its still an issue)




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