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Thank you, this is awesome to hear. Sadly (to my own detriment) I've gotten slow to investigate the alerts because 90% of them are false positives.

That said, this offering is amazing, and IMHO a huge value add of using Github, so even if you left it exactly how it is it's still appreciated. I especially appreciate that you support many different languages (on that, would love to see Erlang and Elixir added). An app server that runs an older PHP service got exploited and was mining crypto currency. The investigation went way, way faster because I happened to notice the security warning on Github. I was able to get it patched pretty quickly thanks to that. Even though updating deps is one of the first things I do, I may never have actually figured out where the vulnerability was without github, so thank you so much!




That’s awesome to hear. And I hear you on Elixir/Erlang. I have personal skin in the game on that one - in my Dependabot days I created the open source Elixir Advisory Database and very much want to transition that to the GitHub Advisory Database (and get alerts working).

https://github.com/dependabot/elixir-security-advisories




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