- 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.
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 usegit 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.