[jkaplowitz]

> In other words, Tencent now has access to all of your public repositories.

They already did. That's what public means. This is just an optimization to make it harder for WeChat access tokens to be inadvertently compromised without getting noticed.

If you're worried about the Chinese government having inappropriate influence over or access to various things outside China, that's in general a valid concern indeed, but facilitating credential scanning in public repositories really doesn't seem worrying.

[Arnt]

I'm shocked by the number of respondents who felt the need to point out what public means.

[gamegod]

It's because this site is dead and more than half the comments are written by bots. On average HN article, like 75% of the comments make absolutely no sense.