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Passwords and other secrets in source code

Secrets are bad. Secrets in source code are an order of magnitude worse. Secrets are difficult to protect. Every attacker goes after the secrets and we must protect our secrets against all of them. The secrets are the valuable part of our software and that’s why they are bad – they represent an area of ...

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