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How bad can it git? Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories

The Morning Paper

How bad can it git? Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories Meli et al., NDSS’19. On the one hand you might say there’s no new news here. We know that developers shouldn’t commit secrets, and we know that secrets leaked to GitHub can be discovered and exploited very quickly. On the other hand, this study goes much deeper, and also provides us with some very actionable information. …we go far beyond noting that leakage occurs, providing a conservative longitudinal

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