One does not commit or compile credentials
Context:
This meme was brought to you by the PyPI Director of Infrastructure who accidentally hardcoded credentials - which could have resulted in compromissing the entire core Python ecosystem.
One does not commit or compile credentials
Context:
This meme was brought to you by the PyPI Director of Infrastructure who accidentally hardcoded credentials - which could have resulted in compromissing the entire core Python ecosystem.
If I had a dollar for every API key inside a config.json…
Can I have a dollar for every public S3 bucket?
Might just make enough to pay your AWS bill this month.
I actually do have a dollar for every API key I or my team have committed inside a config file.
And…I’m doing pretty well.
Also, I’ve built some close friendships with our Cybersecurity team.
Here’s the thing, config.json should have been on the project’s .gitignore.
Not exactly because of credentials. But, how do you change it to test with different settings?
For a lot of my projects, there is a config-<env>.json that is selected at startup based the environment.
Nothing secure in those, however.
When it’s really messy, we: