GitHub hands out your repo visitors IP like candy who ask for it politely

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	GitHub hands out your repo visitors IP like candy who ask for it politely (twitter.com)
	36 points by kbns 1168 days ago

1 comments

Beaver117 1168 days ago

Last two digits are censored. So country/state are given but not exact location

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matthews2 1168 days ago

Given the partial IP address and request time, the ISP could identify the customer.

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News-Dog 1168 days ago

VPN and Tor Browser?

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jrootabega 1168 days ago

Let's not get so distracted that we forget the main point of the post: should GitHub be providing this information so readily?

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chatmasta 1168 days ago

You can just put a JPG hosted on your server in the readme and get their full IP.

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rtldg 1168 days ago

Github proxies images so this shouldn't be possible https://github.blog/2014-01-28-proxying-user-images/

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jrootabega 1168 days ago

Yes, and that is something that will always be possible between the author and the reader, but this is about a third party, GitHub, providing this information to a possible fourth party. That's what the Twitter post wanted to get across.

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