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raesene9 ◴[] No.44452472[source]
An interesting look at one of the consequences of using git and public repo's.

Does leave me wondering how long before someone has a setup which detects and tries to exploit these in real-time, which feels like it could be nasty.

Also a challenge with these posts is they were unlikely to have been able to contact all the affected developers who have got exposed secrets, meaning that any that were uncontactable/non-responsive are likely still vulnerable now, I'd guess that means they're about see what happens if those secrets get abused, as people start exploring this more...

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hboon ◴[] No.44452481[source]
There are already people scanning git repos for Bitcoin/Ethereum/crypto keys and exploiting them immediately.
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1. 2OEH8eoCRo0 ◴[] No.44453417[source]
Not just Git either. Push a container to Docker Hub and you'll get instant downloads. Presumably people scanning containers for secrets.