While GitHub offers security features like two-factor authentication and alerts for vulnerable dependencies, public repositories can expose code to anyone, potentially even malicious actors.

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The poor guy created a repository with a scatalogical name, no doubt to store random things, but had the misfortune to inadvertently create the billionth repository on GitHub.