Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co.
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You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.
  • nao@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    6 months ago

    After reviewing the documentation, it’s clear as day that GitHub designed repositories to work like this.

    Sounds like they wanted to find a problem but it turned out to be a feature.