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vidarh on July 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: One in every 600 websites has .git exposed

The example above is someone who have stupidly started a process with the environment variables exposed on the command line

yrro on July 29, 2015 [–]

Ok, but that's not a problem caused by the exposure of the environment, it's caused by the exposure of the command line.

vidarh on July 30, 2015 | [–]

I agree - I was just explaining what the issue the above commenter raised. It just means you should use a saner way of initializing your environment with sensitive values.

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