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Old 25th January 2013
J65nko J65nko is offline
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Default GitHub search exposes uploaded credentials

From http://h-online.com/-1791252

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Users of the GitHub project hosting system have been reminded not to upload sensitive information to the system's Git repositories. The reminder comes after GitHub launched a new search service based on elasticsearch. The launch of the service sent people off searching the code and, as people tend to do, they searched for private information. Various searches for terms such as "BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY" were revealing many people had, in fact, been uploading private keys.
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