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Enrolling into GitHub education already required a school email which usually contains your name or school documents which most definitely have your name on it.
by Sayrus 3y ago
Enrolling into GitHub education already required a school email which usually contains your name or school documents which most definitely have your name on it.
The change being discussed is not about sharing your name with Microsoft GitHub but about having it on your profile. Your profile is shared to third-party such as apps with the right OAuth scope.
- planede 3y agoA couple of years ago I verified that they really only just looked for *.edu.* in the domain part of the email address. I could easily enroll with something like john@edu.my.domain.com . I reported it but they didn't give a damn.
- elashri 3y agoWhile they did not respond to your report. They currently definitely make it hard to pull something like this, as they will ask for real docs to prove that you are a student.
- planede 3y agoOh, they did respond, they just wrote that they don't give a damn. I guess they care now. As I remember this was way before the Microsoft acquisition though, so there is that.
- elashri 3y agoBefore MS acquisition, they were a small player. The GitHub education pack was much smaller in terms of what it offers than today. This means it was less of an abuse target, and probably some of the contracts between providers and GitHub is that they must have a restricted student verification process. They afforded to ignore that before, but can't today.