You can cause mayhem by force pushing all refs as empty though. Then you would likely need to get GH support on the line to restore a backup, if they had them for you.
It is really easy to protect you main branch. Github will actually warn you if don't have any protection policy on it.
It's also really easy to turn that off.
I feel like at least one employ would have a clone of the repo no more than a few hours old.
Ironically a lot of banks and big corps are moving to "cloud dev environments" so it's possible that Brody could have deleted all the dev containers too...
yeah for sure that is definitely an urgent pagerduty request I might have sent once or twice before: /!\ DO NOT CLONE/PULL, DISCONNECT YOUR LAPTOP FROM WIFI
But the commits will still be there even if the refs aren't, afaik? GitHub doesn't run gc that often.