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A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform (webmatrices.com)
jesse_dot_id 9 minutes ago [-]
> How many developers do you think knew that checkbox existed? How many assumed their database credentials and API keys were encrypted by default?

If I don't see asterisks, I'm not hitting save on the field with a secret in it. Maybe they were setting them programmatically? They should definitely still be looking to pass some kind of a secret flag, though. This is a weird problem for a company like Vercel to have.

apgwoz 2 minutes ago [-]
You pretty much have to assume someone is going to put sensitive data in an input like this. Encryption by default is the only sensible choice.
EdwardDiego 10 minutes ago [-]
A frigging Roblox cheat...

And I thought it was bad when my son got compromised by a Roblox cheat, but they only they grabbed his Gamepass cookies and bought 4 Minecraft licenses, which MS quickly refunded...

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