[oelmekki]

The worst part in that is that it provides tons of passwords to analyze and detect recurring words or schemes. This probably also will hurt people that never commited their passwords in public repos. Github should probably filter out such searches.

[raesene6]

I think the ship of "easily analzed password dumps" has already sailed e.g. https://xato.net/today-i-am-releasing-ten-million-passwords-... <-- 10 million passwords

[oelmekki]

Yeah, indeed. I guess we can expect password schemes to change over time, so it's still a good idea to prevent it. Not sure in which proportion it helps, though.