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vibe code go brrrrrrr
EDIT: wow it's far worse, it was a single contractor that decided that his convenience was above any and all security recommendations ever written. Pure. Genius!
Leaving passwords in plaintext has zero to do with “vibe coding”
It definitely can if an LLM did it.
I agree and to expand the same point. Even if the llm didn't do it, it's entirely plausible the LLM recommended it and the dev just drank that coolaid
yeah, and this is why I edited my original post after reading the article.
Contractor, eh?
How much do you wanna bet he has close personal ties to the trump family and zero cybersecurity experience?
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You know what's ironic? FedRAMP rules dictate that Thou Must Scan Thy Repos for Secrets (tokens, passwords, etc)
GitHub, ButrBucket, etc all have this out of the box for enterprise customers
https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-data-center/kb/how-to-scan-for-and-remove-passwords-or-secrets-in-bitbucket-server-repositories/