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This meme was brought to you by the PyPI Director of Infrastructure who accidentally hardcoded credentials - which could have resulted in compromissing the entire core Python ecosystem.

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[โ€“] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but a combination of this approach, and adding all compiled file types including .pyc to .gitignore would fix it.

[โ€“] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

adding all compiled file types including .pyc to .gitignore would fix it

But in this case they didn't accidentally put the token in git; the place where they forgot to put *.pyc was .dockerignore.