CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github

34 points by kngl 23 hours ago on lobsters | 2 comments

viraptor | 22 hours ago

It is obviously an individual’s mistake

Or plausible deniability? Making this public is one thing. But once you disable secrets protection on the repo as well...

hoistbypetard | 10 hours ago

That was my very first thought when I read

the commit logs in the offending GitHub account show that the CISA administrator disabled the default setting in GitHub that blocks users from publishing SSH keys or other secrets in public code repositories.

This reads like exfiltration.

The fact that their other practices are so terrible introduces plausible deniability, I suppose. But it's only barely plausible IMO.