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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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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