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Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes (cointelegraph.com)
submitted 1 year ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • Web3 developer Brian Guan lost $40,000 after accidentally posting his wallet's secret keys publicly on GitHub, with the funds being drained in just two minutes.
  • The crypto community's reactions were mixed, with some offering support and others mocking Guan's previous comments about developers using AI tools like ChatGPT for coding.
  • This incident highlights ongoing debates about security practices and the role of AI in software development within the crypto community.
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[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 372 points 1 year ago (37 children)

The developer said he forgot that his secret keys were in the repository.

If you have your secret keys in your repository you've already fucked up, long before you accidentally make that repository public.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago (19 children)

One of the first things you should do in a repo is add a .gitignore file and make sure there are rules to ignore things like *secret* or *private* etc. Also, I pretty much never use git add . because I don't like the laziness of it and EVERY TIME one of my coworkers checked in secrets they were using that command.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Better yet you can configure gitignore globally for git. I do this mostly to avoid polluting repo ignore files with my editor specific junk but *.key and similar can help prevent accidents.

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For personal projects that's definitely a good idea. For team projects I like to keep that stuff in the project still so the "experience" of working in the project is mostly consistent.

[–] bellsDoSing@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I started using git-secret 2 years ago. It's nice for making secrets part of the repo, while not being readable by anyone that isn't explicitely allowed to do so (using GPG).

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Better yet you can configure gitignore globally for git.

I think you really need the project specific gitignore as well, to make sure any other contributor that joins by default has the same protections in place.

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