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Technical writing is part of the job of software engineering. Just like “tester” or “DBA”, it was always going to go the way of the dodo.

If you’re a technical writer, now’s the time to reinvent yourself.

The workflow was configured in a way that allowed untrusted code from a branch controlled by the attacker to be executed in the context of a GitHub action workflow that had access to secrets.

The attacker did not need to merge any PRs to exfiltrate the credentials

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To any beginners reading this: Solving problems inefficiently does not make you a bad programmer. Most of the time, an "inefficient" solution will be good enough, and optimising for performance comes at a cost.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the journey.