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A pull-request is the wrong way to demand removal of personally-compromising information. If he instead routes his request to Github’s GDPR compliance departme

by gojomo 7y ago

A pull-request is the wrong way to demand removal of personally-compromising information. If he instead routes his request to Github’s GDPR compliance department, it will be illegal for them to refuse the deletion.

alanfranz 7y ago
It was a joke. Pure trolling from a security researcher.
- re 7y ago
  Voters seem to be missing gojomo's joke.
- gojomo 7y ago
  Indeed, but your joke detector needs further tuning, as it is only running at 50% accuracy in this thread.
  - alanfranz 7y ago
    Yep, I didn't get it. But I swear I didn't downvote you.
reificator 7y ago
> A pull-request is the wrong way to demand removal of personally-compromising information. > If he instead routes his request to Github’s GDPR compliance department, it will be illegal for them to refuse the deletion. That's a good tip. If assafnativ ever wants to actually do that, I'm sure they will. Which will of course also remove it from all the password dumps it was initially included in, and protect assafnativ from all future hacking attempts.
Shorel 7y ago
Even if it was safely deleted from Github, there's the rest of the Internet to worry about. Definitely a great example of how the Streisand effect affects security.