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by woodruffw 407 days ago
FWIW: Self-hosted runners are non-trivial to secure[1]; the defaults GitHub gives you are not necessarily secure ones, particularly if your self-hosted runner executes workflows from public repositories.

(Self-hosted runners are great for many other reasons, not least of which is that they're a lot cheaper. But I've seen a lot of people confuse GitHub Actions' latent security issues with something that self-hosted runners can fix, which is not per se the case.)

[1]: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-for-github-actio...

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Hm that's good to know, thanks for the link. I'm just using the runner for private solo projects atm so I think my setup will do for now. But I definitely didn't consider the implications of using it on a private project with other contributors yikes.