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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours ago

‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

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‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours ago
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Passwords were stored as plain text in a public GitHub repository.
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    vibe code go brrrrrrr

    EDIT: wow it’s far worse, it was a single contractor that decided that his convenience was above any and all security recommendations ever written. Pure. Genius!

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      Contractor, eh?

      How much do you wanna bet he has close personal ties to the trump family and zero cybersecurity experience?

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      Leaving passwords in plaintext has zero to do with “vibe coding”

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        It definitely can if an LLM did it.

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          I agree and to expand the same point. Even if the llm didn’t do it, it’s entirely plausible the LLM recommended it and the dev just drank that coolaid

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        yeah, and this is why I edited my original post after reading the article.

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      Only the best people

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        You know what’s ironic? FedRAMP rules dictate that Thou Must Scan Thy Repos for Secrets (tokens, passwords, etc)

        GitHub, ButrBucket, etc all have this out of the box for enterprise customers

        https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-data-center/kb/how-to-scan-for-and-remove-passwords-or-secrets-in-bitbucket-server-repositories/

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