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		inferiorhuman on May 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter urges users to change passwords after comp... I'm curious, how often do you actually need to print out the password in a development context?

zimpenfish on May 4, 2018 [–]

I've been working on authentication stuff for the last two weeks and the answer is "more than you'd like".

But luckily it's something we cover in code reviews and the logging mechanism has a "sensitive data filter" that defaults to on (and has an alert on it being off in production.)

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