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Re: A Whole New Code Search

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post #85

A different kind of use case: attribution. In my case I used this to correct an improper attribution to me, I searched for my name and came across: https://github.com/dks/TinyOAuth Except I didn't write OAuth.php. I wrote a different library.

Hah, fantastic!

I just did a search on my name and found a litle project I had never heard of that was based of a little thing I did.

Kind of ego boosting and nice to know that some things you do are actually found useful by people.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

#92
While this is excellent, most of my search likely just revolves around particular repositories. So while I'm addressing issues or writing comments, I can make searches like `branch:feature/foobar OrderModel` or `file:app/config.yml` and the like returning blazingly fast results.

Is GitHub working on something similar? Or am I the only one who'd want search for this purpose?

Re: A Whole New Code Search

#93
post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A hacker-with-a-heart-of-gold will write a script to harvest these emails and send them a warning message with a link to this thread.

The one time those spammy GitHub bots could be put to good use

Most of those are examples or dummy data. Most of the messages this bot sends will be annoying and unwanted.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

#94

Interesting: https://github.com/search?p=4&q=gmail_password&ref=s... https://github.com/search?p=4&q=secret_token&ref=sea...

Someone is interested in what you and I have to say: https://github.com/ruggeri/hn-local-copy Found via Github search

Creepy...

That's Ned Ruggeri, co-founder of App Academy (http://www.appacademy.io/). His HN account: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ruggeri

Re: A Whole New Code Search

#96

Interesting: https://github.com/search?p=4&q=gmail_password&ref=s... https://github.com/search?p=4&q=secret_token&ref=sea...

Someone is interested in what you and I have to say: https://github.com/ruggeri/hn-local-copy Found via Github search

I'm one of the students of App Academy ( which Ned Ruggeri is co-founder of ). The reason for that is because today one of the tasks was to create a version of HN in ou terminals. HN was blocking people due to repeated requests and thus Ned made a local version of HN for students to use.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

#99
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is not the only disturbing part. SSH private key by itself is not much of a threat, but bundled together with known_hosts is a recipe for disaster.

https://github.com/gomachan/dotfiles/tree/master/.ssh

At least now someone can push to his GitHub account to remove it for him. :-)

Re: A Whole New Code Search

#100

Interesting: https://github.com/search?p=4&q=gmail_password&ref=s... https://github.com/search?p=4&q=secret_token&ref=sea...

It took me all of two seconds to think of the same thing, too. Here's hoping this is a big net win for parameterized security tokens.
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