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Re:Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your re... by Usu on Monday February 23, 2015 @06:45AM (#9093779)
Actually after looking into it the current permissions are:

Grants read/write access to profile info only. Note that this scope includes user:email and user:follow.

Still too broad, but it doesn't give access to repos. I will change it to only user:email as soon as I get off my daily job.

Re:Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your re... by akerl_ on Monday February 23, 2015 @08:19AM (#9094079)
It's been a while since I tested it, but I believe that reading public info like stars and following/followers requires no scopes. I only needed that scope for writing. May be worth checking out?
Re:Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your re... by stingraycharles on Monday February 23, 2015 @07:24AM (#9093889)
Github shoukd rename it into "profile data" then. "User data" seems easy to misinterpret.
Re:Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your re... by masukomi on Monday February 23, 2015 @09:46AM (#9094503)
Yeah, i was about to sign up but didn't because it was asking for too much permission.
Re:Show HN: GitHub Notifier – Emails for stars/forks your re... by Usu on Monday February 23, 2015 @09:54AM (#9094552)
I fixed the issue :)