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Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised

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1208 points jamesberthoty | 2 comments | 16 Sep 25 11:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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madeofpalk ◴[16 Sep 25 11:49 UTC] No.45260948[source]▶
My main takeaway from all of these is to stop using tokens, and rely on mechanisms like OIDC to reduce the blast radius of a compromise.

How many tokens do you have lying around in your home directory in plain text, able to be read by anything on your computer running as your user?

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diggan ◴[16 Sep 25 11:54 UTC] No.45261000[source]▶
> How many tokens do you have lying around in your home directory in plain text, able to be read by anything on your computer running as your user?

Zero? How many developers have plain-text tokens lying around on disk? Avoiding that been hammered into me from every developer more senior than me since I got involved with professional software development.

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mewpmewp2 ◴[16 Sep 25 11:56 UTC] No.45261018[source]▶
How do you manage secrets for your projects?
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diggan ◴[16 Sep 25 11:58 UTC] No.45261045[source]▶
Using a password manager for fetching them when needed. 1Password in my case, but I'm sure any password manager can be used for storing secrets for most programming projects.
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mewpmewp2 ◴[16 Sep 25 12:03 UTC] No.45261088[source]▶
Which programming languages/frameworks do you use? Do you use 1Password to load secrets to env where you run whatever thing you are working on? Or does the app load them during boot?
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1. diggan ◴[16 Sep 25 12:07 UTC] No.45261127[source]▶
A bunch, ranging from JS to Clojure and everything in-between, depends on the project.

The approach also depends on the project. There is a bunch of different approaches and I don't think there is one approach that would work for every project, and sometimes I requires some wrangling but takes 5-10 minutes tops.

Some basic information about how you could make it work with 1Password: https://developer.1password.com/docs/cli/secrets-environment...

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2. mewpmewp2 ◴[16 Sep 25 12:26 UTC] No.45261319[source]▶
How long have you been using that method? I didn't feel it's been very popular so far, although it makes a lot of sense. I've always seen people using gitignored .env files/config dirs in projects with many hardcoded credentials.