Web3 developer Brian Guan lost $40,000 after accidentally making his wallet keys public on GitHub.
  • Web3 developer Brian Guan lost $40,000 after accidentally posting his wallet’s secret keys publicly on GitHub, with the funds being drained in just two minutes.
  • The crypto community’s reactions were mixed, with some offering support and others mocking Guan’s previous comments about developers using AI tools like ChatGPT for coding.
  • This incident highlights ongoing debates about security practices and the role of AI in software development within the crypto community.
  • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The developer said he forgot that his secret keys were in the repository.

    If you have your secret keys in your repository you’ve already fucked up, long before you accidentally make that repository public.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      One of the first things you should do in a repo is add a .gitignore file and make sure there are rules to ignore things like *secret* or *private* etc. Also, I pretty much never use git add . because I don’t like the laziness of it and EVERY TIME one of my coworkers checked in secrets they were using that command.