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

The Next Web
By Darius PopaJun 3, 2026, 3:57 pm73 pts
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…

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