security theater #15642
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Dependabot convinces contributors that CVE reports are private when in fact they are quite public.
Specifically, Dependabot hides reports to non project owners. But anyone can already fork (either with ordinary GitHub controls, or manually), and then see the exact same CVE information at the fork. So it only hurts contributors of the main fork to hide actionable CVE reports.
If GitHub is too lazy to implement RBAC for Dependabot Web UI widgets, that's one thing. But logically, there is no good reason to hide the security tab from anyone with read privileges on the repository, nevermind their status as owner or not.
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