We all have blind spots that our privilege creates. @github's introduction tutorial has people add the coordinates of their current location as a pull request. This was made by someone that has never been stalked, doxxed, or worried about their government. https://services.github.com/on-demand/intro-to-github/find-your-coordinates …
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@github intro tutorial asks people to share their location via a public pull request. The latitude and longitude often shows exactly where they live if they're in a rural area. Here's a new GitHub user's house in Oklahoma, USA:https://www.google.com/maps/place/36%C2%B010'36.2%22N+96%C2%B046'37.8%22W/@36.1749029,-96.7779588,16.5z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d36.1767133!4d-96.7771677 …Show this thread -
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@github user deletes their account, a "ghost" account is shown for all their PRs and comments. However, the intro tutorial asks people to add their username and location to the pull request. So you can find location data of deleted accounts:https://github.com/githubschool/open-enrollment-classes-introduction-to-github/pull/21918/files …Show this thread -
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Additionally, there are projects that archive the "public stream" of all GitHub pull requests. Even if this sensitive location data is removed from GitHub, it will still exist in that history. People who cloned the repo in the past still have access to all that location data.
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Even if GitHub did a force revision of the git history, anyone who cloned the repo would still have the data as part of git's object store. Git automatically does garbage collection sometimes, but anyone who had a branch checked out from an old version wouldn't get that GC'ed.
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It's disappointing, because it looks like it was a good tutorial with automated bots to help people learn. I was hoping to share it with Outreachy applicants, but there's no way I'm going to encourage them to reveal their location publicly.
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Hey can yall email support@github.com I'm not brushing you off I just think they'll know better what to do
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