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Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub

Sounds scary, if you didn't deep dive into how git works and how GitHub hosts it.

TL;DR: If some repo can git fetch upstream - all these fetchable commits will be always accessible from this fork/main repo.
Only after the visibility of the repo changes - new commits will be not discoverable.

For more details and examples, check this article, which was brought to us from CatOps Chat.

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Trufflesecurity Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub ◆ Truffle Security Co. You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.
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