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		SoftTalker on Sept 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CrowdStrike ex-employees: 'Quality control was not... Secrets in clear text in environment variables is never a good idea though.

dchftcs on Sept 14, 2024 [–]

There are secrets like passwords, but there are also secrets like "these are the parameters for running a server for our assembly line for X big corp".

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