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Re:GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down. by rogerbinns on Sunday March 04, 2012 @09:54PM (#3665200)
What makes you think they are saints? About a year ago I discovered that they didn't protect attachments to tickets in private repositories (since fixed). Anyone who could guess the URL could access the content. (It looked like the cause was keeping the attachments in S3 without front-ending them.)

On contacting them I was told it would be fixed in a day or two, and that it was no big deal since you had to guess the URL. The values you had to guess in the URL were a ticket number (they start from 1), a repository name, a date (YMD) and a filename. Sure there is some variety in there but it is not in the billions of possibilities, just hundreds and that won't make any computer break into a sweat and in my words at the time "easy". To make matters worse you can't delete the attachments to tickets.

This may not affect you. It certainly affected me. For example we had some keyfiles in one ticket. Coredumps in others.

Two weeks later the issue still hadn't been fixed and I don't know when it was. I've never seen disclosure of the issue. There wasn't even any way of knowing if attachments had been accessed in an unauthorized way since there was no checking in the first place.

Re:GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down. by zalew on Sunday March 04, 2012 @11:35PM (#3665433)
> What makes you think they are saints?

What makes you think I think that?

Re:GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down. by rogerbinns on Sunday March 04, 2012 @11:45PM (#3665459)
You suggested bitbucket as an alternative to the github the thread starter had lost trust in.