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maybe I'm showing my rural roots here, but a privy is an outhouse. Of course, it also has the "secret" meaning, but...

• tweetle_beetle 3y ago
  I suspect it's making use of the 'trusted personal advisor' connotations, similar to the metaphor of having a co-pilot if you will - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_council https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_council
• zik 3y ago
  Maybe it's referring to "code smell"?
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• srikanth235 3y ago
  I was thinking more in terms of something like secret or private :)