One click on GitHub.dev is all it takes to hand over your private repositories
03-06-2026 21:57 via thenextweb.com

One click on GitHub.dev is all it takes to hand over your private repositories

Every developer who has ever pressed the period key on a GitHub repository, launching the convenient browser-based VS Code editor known as GitHub.dev, has unknowingly accepted a bargain. In exchange for a lightweight coding environment, GitHub silently passes an OAuth token to the session, one that grants read and write access to every repository the user […]
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