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Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub. (trufflesecurity.com)

submitted 3 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sem@lemmy.ml 67 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The title is very click bait imo. It is not about any private data. It is a very specific case of deleted fork of the public repository. It is a bug, of course. But it doesn't look so serious as I was thinking when saw the title.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 28 points 3 months ago

It was purposefully designed that way so it’s not a bug. It’s just bad design. Like they say at the end of the article, people view private vs public as a security boundary. So it’s incredibly surprising and unintuitive behavior that has clearly resulted in security breaches.