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by karma20 2518 days ago
Agree. This kind of DLP-like scanning is totally infeasible at GitHub scale.

In particular, one excerpt from the complaint reads like output from a noisy scanner that has detected “exposed SSNs” in client-side code:

> [...] Social Security numbers are readily identifiable: they are nine digits in the XXX-XX-XXXX sequence.