Secrets Exposed: Why modern development, open source repositories spill secrets en masse

For software development teams, the warning just after the New Year from DevOps platform vendor CircleCI to immediately rotate any secrets they had stored on the company’s continuous integration platform was worse than a nightmare. It was more like one of those horror films in which the police tell you that those creepy phone calls are coming from inside the house! 

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