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> If true, that should certainly be a privacy and security concern to any GitHub customer or user. We left github private repo hosting when they got VC funding
by kybernetyk 13y ago
> If true, that should certainly be a privacy and security concern to any GitHub customer or user.
We left github private repo hosting when they got VC funding. Because of such a scenario where we could be competing with a company that was funded by the same VC that gave GH money.
Now in a perfect world that shouldn't be a problem because the VC should never access private user data. But well ... as you see it's not a perfect world and if a wife of an employee can browse through customer data than why shouldn't this be true for the guy who gave GH a few million dollars?
- mhd 13y agoWouldn't that rule out any corporation, too? Not much difference between VCs and large shareholders.
- atmosx 13y agoYou moved into a direct competitor or you rolled up your own infrastructure? I'm curious because if the company is not large, doesn't seem like much of a hassle having your own depository server.
- jc4p 13y agoNot the person you replied to, but we're a large company and we're using Gitlab internally, it even hooks up to LDAP which is fantastic. We still use some private Github projects too.
- matdes 13y agoGitlab is a FOSS self hosted alternative to github.
- kybernetyk 13y agoWe rolled our own. Git hosting is pretty straight forward. And Gitlab makes it even simpler.
- codeka 13y agoShe apparently had access to employee data, not customer data. In my experience, businesses will often play a little fast-and-loose with employee data - far more so than customer data. Though I agree it presents a bad image of GitHub's access control in general.