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zackkitzmiller on March 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: FYI: private Github Gists are not as private as yo...

I thought that was pretty obvious, since you can just share the URL with anyone, with out any sort of auth.

flovec on March 6, 2012 [–]

So, ideally, if you "shared" an endpoint, and the Gist was marked "private", you'd get something standard like "unathenticated". Why else make it private?

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