Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

ZCode silently packages your entire workspace along with full Git history and uploads it to cloud object storage with server-exclusive decryption keys; this post reconstructs the complete upload pipeline and encryption scheme via local forensics and reverse engineering, and provides a filesystem immutability lock to terminate the behavior permanently.
329 points by csmantle 34 days ago blog.ferstar.org 110 comments

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ZCode automatically uploads your Git history to the cloud, raising concerns about privacy and security. This piece details the upload process, encryption methods used, and how to disable this feature.

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