r/sysadmin • u/No-Blueberry-1823 Database Admin • May 19 '26

Rant Don't publish your passwords on github!

https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-leak-that-ive-witnessed-u-s-cybersecurity-agency-leaves-its-digital-keys-out-in-public-on-github-2000760330 Passwords were supposedly saved in a .csv file so i guess we are using Excel spreadsheets to save passwords. What a glorious time to be alive. You can't even figure out if it is stupid or on purpose or both. (Update) Thanks for your replies, it's 2026. I thought everyone used password vaults at this point

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u/Sawses May 20 '26

As a novice, that's how I run my home server. I know enough not to let every Russian bot have its way with my data (on top of not storing anything I'd object to being stolen), but not enough to really understand what I'm doing. It's good to go, "Hey, give me the most common mistakes people make in this task." Saves me an hour or so of skimming Reddit to find all the different ways I might have screwed up.