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deft on June 3, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

I think they purposely weakened the search because people were using it to find secret keys.

manigandham on June 3, 2018 [–]

That doesn't make sense. Ruin the feature to potentially help someone who made a mistake with security? Why wouldnt they just run the search to find keys themselves and remove them from search results.

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