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Your .env File Is Not a Security Control (And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves)
A love letter to every dev who's ever git add . at 2am and hoped for the best.
Let's play a game. Raise your hand if you've ever done one of these:
•Hardcoded an API key "just for testing" and forgot about it for six months
•Pushed a .env file because .gitignore was in the other branch
•Left DEBUG = True in production because "it's fine, nobody's looking"
•Used admin / admin123 in a staging environment that turned out to be public
•Copy-pasted a Stack Overflow answer that disabled CORS e...
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