The op doesn't want the code to be on github and his problem was about his code still being on someone elses accoint as a private fork. It sounded more like "if they get hacked my code isn't there"

Being legit doesn't seem to have any meaning for him or the author of the article. Also the code is the only thing needed for legitimacy. The iphone bootloader code in some repo is still the legit iphone bootloader (as an example)