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‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub (gizmodo.com)
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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Passwords were stored as plain text in a public GitHub repository.

Governments and corporations are made up of people, and when people see other people treated like garbage, they tend to become less diligent in their own duties, and loyalty is thrown out the window. Revenge is never off the table.

Also, even if you get rid of everybody so that no witnesses of your injustice remain, you've filled those positions with neophytes, who are incompetent for quite some time (at least).

that's the notorious "double whammy catch-22 fuck around find out" phenomenon, a TRIPLE THREAT