This article caught my attention due to its direct relevance to this assignment. This class is my first time using git or github, so it is interesting to learn more about it and its relevance in a real business environment. Reading about Microsoft exposing tons of private information in a github repository because of a small mistake with a shared access signature token shows that data can be vulnerable while using git repositories. While the work in this class may not necessarily include any very important information, this issue could be relevant in many situations, especially in the current computing ecosystem which processes larger and larger amounts of data every day.
I think this article reraise an important issue - the security protection. As AI becomes more and more popular and important and the amount of data are exploding, it is much more important to develop ways to systematically protect users's data. Although this mistake by Microsoft might not be that influential, I think this gives an alarm for every developers and engineers to rethink about the current security systems.
I also believe this is a very relevant and almost scary outcome. The fact that so much sensitive information has been exposed for years without knowing of it until now is a scary idea to fathom. This event just goes to show that everyone has to be more careful and check security on sensitive information like this so that this type of mistake won't happen again. The idea that even the backups of two Microsoft employees' personal computer was accessible is frightening. The whole internet could've dug through this information had anyone wanted to. Possibly, people already have. -Carol Tsao