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If you're working for a multinational tech company handling sensitive user data and still make this mistake, then you are being malicious in your incompetence. This is something that would cause you to lose a significant amount of marks on a first year college programming project, let alone a production system used by literally billions of people.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen passwords appear in logs. Its always a struggle, everywhere.
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