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FYI: Data from deleted GitHub repos may not actually be deleted

And the forking Microsoft-owned code warehouse doesn't see this as much of a problem Researchers at Truffle Security have found, or arguably rediscovered, that data from deleted GitHub repositories (public or private) and from deleted copies (forks) of repositories isn't necessarily deleted.…

FYI: Data from deleted GitHub repos may not actually be deleted

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CarbonatedPastaSauce

Remember kids, you are putting your stuff on someone else’s computer and therefore have no control over it.

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programming.dev

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Sparrow reply

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