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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by deft on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:40PM (#17222385)
I think they purposely weakened the search because people were using it to find secret keys.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by manigandham on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:24PM (#17223077)
That doesn't make sense. Ruin the feature to potentially help someone who made a mistake with security? Why wouldnt they just run the search to find keys themselves and remove them from search results.
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