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Re:Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials by paulddraper on Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:00PM (#19827243)
Yes and this is why Github handicapped their search so much.

But at the end of the day, any secret you post publicly is compromised.

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Re:Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials by manigandham on Saturday May 04, 2019 @05:23PM (#19829479)
That's a very poor reason to not have good searching functionality considering the uses far outweighs the potential risk. I highly doubt it's the case.
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Re:Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials by paulddraper on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:42PM (#19830567)
I'm 90% sure it is.

GitHub had great search, then they took it down when they found people we're scraping credentials with it, then they had bad search. I'm connecting the dots.

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Re:Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials by soulofmischief on Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:33PM (#19827473)
Thankfully the guys over at Sourcegraph feel differently about how searchable projects should be.
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