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Programming error created billion-dollar mistake that made the coder ... a hero?

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Re: Self inflicted public humiliation

Well, code CAN contain such credentials, but: They must be stored in a secure way, so they only work on this machine (or vm) with that specific account, else decoding the security token won't work. Though I only use that inline-credentials way only for small scripts. For projects they have to be stored in a different, more secure, way.

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