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GitHub UX has operational security risks

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Re: GitHub UX has operational security risks

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It does show people in your org first, but you have to search by username, not full name.

And that is a problem. Do you know gh usernames or everyone in your org? I sure know most names of the people in my org but no clue about their handles… I most often depend on gh suggestions.

Re: GitHub UX has operational security risks

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post #2

It does show people in your org first, but you have to search by username, not full name.

And that is a problem. Do you know gh usernames or everyone in your org? I sure know most names of the people in my org but no clue about their handles… I most often depend on gh suggestions.

I know people in my org by their handles better than their names haha, guess it just depends on the culture of the place you're at.

Re: GitHub UX has operational security risks

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Github ux is an unmitigated disaster from an operational security perspective. In their defense, it did start out as an open-source tool. The fact that enterprises adopted it so blindly despite this is pretty interesting.

Re: GitHub UX has operational security risks

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Github ux is an unmitigated disaster from an operational security perspective. In their defense, it did start out as an open-source tool. The fact that enterprises adopted it so blindly despite this is pretty interesting.

It really didn't start out as an open-souce tool. Github was founded for selling private repo access for Git and got popular in the FOSS community since they provided free storage.

Re: GitHub UX has operational security risks

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It does show people in your org first, but you have to search by username, not full name.

And that is a problem. Do you know gh usernames or everyone in your org? I sure know most names of the people in my org but no clue about their handles… I most often depend on gh suggestions.

Time to reinvent Java style reverse FQDN for user handles! IMO short username or alphanumerical ID is a must so as not to get into The Falsehoods.
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