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Re:GitHub had connectivity problems by atonse on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @10:09AM (#10116560)
If such a massive scale breach would happen, it would probably have to take weeks because GitHub probably has so much data. (I would guess on the order of hundreds of TB or a few PB).

It would be more likely to just have handful of high visibility repos.

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Re:GitHub had connectivity problems by mrks_ on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @10:29AM (#10116712)
You're probably right. It's unlikely that a hacker would care about my private repos.

That being said, I'm also curious about GitHub's efforts to prevent such a scenario.

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Re:GitHub had connectivity problems by stingraycharles on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @12:13PM (#10117480)
Which makes me wonder: how would one prevent such a scenario, where you cannot simply encrypt with a shared key given github's auth model ?
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