A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Software developers can accidentally leak sensitive information, particularly secret keys for third party services, across code hosting platforms such as GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket. These secrets — including the data they were protecting — end up in the hands of bad actors which ultimately leads to significant data breaches. Imagine being able to monitor the …
Sparked by an idea by Wes Bos, John Papa has created and released a first version of Cloak: Cloak hides/shows your secrets in environment files, to avoid accidentally sharing them with everyone who sees your screen. Handy when doing screencasts and the like. Do note that it only visually hides the secrets, no changes are …
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