Re:Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com
by jamiequint on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:44AM
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Any vendor Gitlab works with already has potential access. Just because you have a known front-end attack vector doesn’t mean you’ve gone from 1 to 4. You’ve been at N the whole time, it just hasn’t been as visible.
FWIW I agree that on-page JS on pages with source code is a terrible idea, but that’s easily fixable and doesn’t seem to be at the root of the issue.
You’d be moving from one (possibly two if you include the cloud provider) vendors having theoretical access to all of your code to four vendors having potential access.