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There is no undo there. 5 mins seems like a long time to you but to the bots that scrape GitHub repos for secret things, the time it took you to notice and reverse something yourself was already the time they needed.

If you made something public on GitHub that shouldn’t have been, it was immediately compromised, you just might not notice.



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