It's an article concerning GitHub and security --- so you can rest assured nobody will read the article and they will instead flail wildly about how this is Basically George Orwell Doing 1984.
I don't know about you, but I don't have time for reading everything gets published on the web – this is why I framed my sentence in the hypothetical. Reading my comment would have clarified my own point of view.
Nobody cares and you aren't that important, so next time read the article instead and get over yourself.