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Honestly after witnessing "principal" software engineers defend storing API keys plaintext in a database in the year of our Lord 2025, and ask how that someone possibly exploit that if they can't access that column directly through an application, my cynicism is strong enough that I can believe that even a majority of "developers" don't even know what a threat model is.




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