Comment Comment by jasode >, I had no idea they had a program called "secret scanning" and that it's actually beneficial.Fyi... this feature was also previously mentioned in the news for public repos: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/github-brings-free-secret-...>So I obviously assumed they're letting China scan my private repos.To clarify, it's Microsoft/Github doing the scanning of private repos on behalf of the partners. They're just forwarding the tokens that match the partners' regexp. parent jasode 3 years ago
Fyi... this feature was also previously mentioned in the news for public repos: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/github-brings-free-secret-...
>So I obviously assumed they're letting China scan my private repos.
To clarify, it's Microsoft/Github doing the scanning of private repos on behalf of the partners. They're just forwarding the tokens that match the partners' regexp.