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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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[–] lud@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

Fun fact: if you search for "removed key" or something similar in GitHub you will get thousands of results of people removing accidentally committed keys. I'm guessing the vast majority of those removed keys haven't been revoked.