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Sure, use private repos for private projects but this is about open-source authors accidentally leaving their credentials in config files and the like.
by mmahemoff 12y ago
Sure, use private repos for private projects but this is about open-source authors accidentally leaving their credentials in config files and the like.
- femto113 12y agoAnecdotally this seems to happen mostly from personal experiments, not from development of open source software meant to be consumed by others. Secrets generally are included in projects that are meant to be deployed (like a rails app, or a blog, or ...), not in thelibraries/gems/modules that make up the bulk of open source found on Github.