API Secret Leakage Galaxy Brain

Leaking your API secret through someone seeing the code on your screen Leaking your API secret through a GitHub repository Leaking your API secret through posting it in the API tutorial Leaking your API secret through a meme on r/programmerhumor

The meme uses four increasingly illuminated brain images to rank ways of leaking an API secret: someone seeing it on your screen, publishing it in a GitHub repository, putting it in an API tutorial, and finally posting it in a meme on r/programmerhumor. The joke is that each supposedly smarter method is actually an increasingly public and ridiculous security mistake, with the final panel presenting blatant exposure as the most enlightened option. EN: The meme uses four increasingly illuminated brain images to rank ways of leaking an API secret: someone seeing it on your screen, publishing it in a GitHub repository, putting it in an API tutorial, and finally posting it in a meme on r/programmerhumor. The joke is that each supposedly smarter method is actually an increasingly public and ridiculous security mistake, with the final panel presenting blatant exposure as the most enlightened option.

• @profunctor_io / 1215 2018-08-20