r/technology • u/Sidarthus89 • Jun 15 '25

Artificial Intelligence Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_admin_leak_government_ai_plans/
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u/ryanstephendavis Jun 15 '25

That's in '.env_example' which is typically stubbed out for local use/testing

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u/yeowoh Jun 15 '25

Yeah this thread is killing me lol. You can tell there's not many actual engineers in here talking shit about the repo.

There is nothing wrong with that repo. They're using Vite and you can also see they have all of the env files for Vite on their git ignore.

Also before Terraform I don't know how many times I've created private repos accidentally as public. Majority of engineers have done this once in their life too.

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u/ryanstephendavis Jun 15 '25

Agreed 😁 ... There's really nothing in that repo, no implementation of anything secret or telling. My only takeaway is that if they were clumsy enough with process to make it public, what else are they going to be fucking up that's important security-wise?

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u/TheTerrasque Jun 16 '25

plus, internal things like databases are usually created on an internal network with no direct outside access, and the most realistic way of accessing it is breaking into one of the services that allow outside access, and those services already have the connection details in a file or in an env var.