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Singling out GitHub seems silly. If you're on GitHub, have a .gitconfig with name + email, and you've made a commit, then that's all public. If a site uses you
by Smerity 13y ago
Singling out GitHub seems silly. If you're on GitHub, have a .gitconfig with name + email, and you've made a commit, then that's all public.
If a site uses your Gravatar, game over: Gravatar's literally a raw MD5 of your email with the aim to give you a globally identifiable avatar. That's been known (documented!) for a long time and unlikely to be a surprise to many of us here.
The only place this is likely to be an issue is when a site knows you but you assume you're anonymous. If you're using a web service where you want to be anonymous, connecting anything with your identity is a bad idea.
- scdoshi 13y agoExactly what I was thinking. If you commit to github, your account email is already public.
- martey 13y ago> The only place this is likely to be an issue is when a site knows you but you assume you're anonymous. If you're using a web service where you want to be anonymous, connecting anything with your identity is a bad idea. While I wish the article headline mentioned Gravatar as opposed to Github, I think it is worth realizing that Github provides instructions to use a fake email address in your .gitconfig to protect your privacy [1] while simultaneously requiring you to provide a valid email address while setting up your account. [2] [1]: https://help.github.com/articles/keeping-your-email-address-private https://help.github.com/articles/keeping-your-email-address-... [2]: https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service#a-account-terms https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service#a-a...