After Iran Bans and 20,000 Leaked Private Repos, Should Devs Migrate Off GitHub?
FlolightC · x · 2026-09-17
- French developer Hugo argues the US monopoly on software infrastructure poses real risks, focusing on GitHub (Microsoft): 180M registered developers, >50% market share.
- Evidence: in 2019, developers in Iran, Syria, Cuba, North Korea and Crimea lost access to private repos and paid accounts; in 2025, 20,000 private GitHub repos were indexed by Bing and accessible to Copilot.
- GitHub is subject to the Cloud Act and FISA, meaning the US government can request data. The author urges developers to consider European alternatives.
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