Pre-Commit

Imagine this scenario: you’ve been working on a cool project all night. By 4 a.m. everything is ready, you do a final git push and go to sleep with a clear conscience. In the morning you find your AWS balance is zero and a miner is running on your servers. What happened? It turns out you left a line in one of the files: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "AKIA...".

This is a classic mistake thousands of developers have made. In this article we’ll look at why “just deleting the password” won’t help and how to set up automatic protection that will physically prevent you from making the mistake.