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Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes (cointelegraph.com)

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Web3 developer Brian Guan lost $40,000 after accidentally posting his wallet's secret keys publicly on GitHub, with the funds being drained in just two minutes.
The crypto community's reactions were mixed, with some offering support and others mocking Guan's previous comments about developers using AI tools like ChatGPT for coding.
This incident highlights ongoing debates about security practices and the role of AI in software development within the crypto community.

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[-] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 372 points 3 weeks ago

The developer said he forgot that his secret keys were in the repository.

If you have your secret keys in your repository you've already fucked up, long before you accidentally make that repository public.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 92 points 3 weeks ago

One of the first things you should do in a repo is add a .gitignore file and make sure there are rules to ignore things like *secret* or *private* etc. Also, I pretty much never use git add . because I don't like the laziness of it and EVERY TIME one of my coworkers checked in secrets they were using that command.

[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

I basically always do a git add -p

Very useful command and it works with other git commands as well.

Everytime a colleague asks me for help with git that’s the one rule I suggest them to use.

[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

What does that do?

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Instead of just adding whole changed files, it starts an interactive mode where it shows every hunk of diffs one by one, and asks you to input yes or no for each change. Very helpful for doing your own mini code review or sanity check before you even commit.

[-] iegod@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago

I use vscode with plugins and manually add my files now. The workflow is beautiful.

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

If you ever Stage Selected Range in VSCode, that accomplishes basically the same thing as git add -p!

[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

That’s exactly why I do it

The s option is very useful to split the chunks.

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