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Re:Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials by wybiral on Saturday May 04, 2019 @11:19AM (#19826964)
Is it mitigated? Once it's leaked you can't force everyone who may have captured it to delete it. So GitHub deleting it doesn't solve the problem.
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Re:Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials by soulofmischief on Saturday May 04, 2019 @11:23AM (#19826995)
The definition of mitigation is to make something less severe. Yes, GitHub making this policy as clear as possible and allowing controls to toggle it per-repository or per-account mitigates the problem.
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