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Github Pages is a special type of hosting. It's first ever transparent hosting. What you see is what is in the repo. By wathching the repo people can be quite s
by homakov 10y ago
Github Pages is a special type of hosting. It's first ever transparent hosting. What you see is what is in the repo. By wathching the repo people can be quite sure they won't be hacked or served special JS they dont expect. That's why I'd love to see paid plans.
- pghdiss 10y agoAssuming of course you trust GitHub.. And you use HTTPS. And you trust HTTPS. And you read the entire code and verified there are no backdoors whatsoever. None. At all.
- homakov 10y agoGoes without saying. But i would trust bitcoinwallet at github.io more than a standalone web app
- mattecapu 10y agoYou can say the same thing for every "static" hosting. As long as you don't run custom code server-side, every line of code run on the client is readable by anyone whichever hosting you use. GitHub Pages offers no more guarantees than "no (custom) code is run on the server". Also I'm pretty confident the 99% of users won't look at the code in advance anyway, even if they can understand what it does.
- homakov 10y agoGithub offers you to "watch" a repo out of box, and if many users do it, much harder to backdoor.