Developers Can't Seem To Stop Exposing Credentials in Publicly Accessible Code - Slashdot

Resear more than a decade y firm GitGuardian this week reported finding almost 4,000 unique secrets stashed inside a total of 450,000 projects submitted to PyPI, the official code repository for the Python programming language.

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