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by toomuchtodo 442 days ago
This is not great based on the potential exposure, but also not the end of the world. You’re free to your opinion of course wrt severity and impact, but folks aren’t going to leave GitHub over this in any material fashion imho. They had a failure, they will recover from it and move on. It’s certainly not PR from me, I don’t work for nor have any financial interest in GH or MS. I am a security person though, these are my opinions based on doing this for ~10 years (I am consistently exposed to security gore in my work), and we likely have an expectations disconnect.

As a customer, I’m not going to lose sleep over it. I’m going to document for any audits or other governance processes and carry on. I operate within "commercially reasonable" context for this work. Security is just very hard in a Sisyphus sort of way. We cannot not do it, but we also cannot be perfect, so there is always going to be vigorous debate over what enough is.