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# dev.azure.com anonymous access is per-project, not per-org

```
GET https://dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_apis/build/builds?api-version=7.1
-> HTTP 200, {"count":0,"value":[]}   (anonymous, no redirect, no 401)

GET https://dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_apis/build/definitions?api-version=7.1
-> HTTP 200, {"count":0,"value":[]}

GET https://dev.azure.com/dnceng/_apis/projects/public?api-version=7.1
-> HTTP 200, real project metadata:
   {"id":"9ee6d478-...","name":"public","description":
     "No longer in use except for public feeds; see dnceng for questions,
      or go to https://dnceng-public.visualstudio.com/public", ...}
```
The "public" project under the .NET engineering org (`dnceng`) really is
anonymously readable — both calls return a clean `200`, not a login
redirect — but the counts are genuinely `0`: its own description says builds
moved elsewhere, so the empty result is a content fact, not an access
failure.

```
GET https://dev.azure.com/dnceng/_apis/projects?api-version=7.1   (list ALL projects)
-> HTTP 302, Location: https://spsprodcus3.vssps.visualstudio.com/_signin?...
   www-authenticate: <auth-scheme> authorization_uri=https://login.microsoftonline.com/...

GET https://dev.azure.com/mseng/_apis/projects/MSEng?api-version=7.1   (unknown/private project)
-> HTTP 302, same sign-in redirect
```
So on this org, **naming a specific, actually-public project** gets you a
real anonymous `200`; asking for the **org-wide project list**, or naming an
unknown/non-public project, gets the identical `302` sign-in redirect either
way — a caller cannot distinguish "that project doesn't exist" from "that
project exists but isn't public" by this redirect alone.

## The redirect itself names the identity provider

The `302`'s `Location` points at
`spsprodcus3.vssps.visualstudio.com/_signin?realm=dev.azure.com&...`, and the
response also carries a `www-authenticate` header naming an
`authorization_uri=https://login.microsoftonline.com/72f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47`
— that GUID is Microsoft's own corporate Entra tenant id, present on this
header regardless of which org/project was requested (confirmed identical
on both `dnceng` and `mseng`). So even the "please sign in" response leaks
which backend identity-provider tenant fields the request, independent of
the specific org path that triggered it — a constant across the whole
`dev.azure.com` product, not something scoped per customer org.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:35Z-11:41Z, curl (GET only) against the live service.

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