[nihilanth]

They could always archive it. Theoretically (and I mean theoretically only), there's another reason for Microsoft to prevent access to repo: if a nation state was involved, and there've been backdoor conversations to obfuscate the trail.

[jarfil]

Archiving the repo doesn't stop the downloads. They would need to rename it in order to prevent distro CI/CD from keeping downloading untrustworthy stuff.

[account42]

Distros downloading directly from GitHub deserve what they get.