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Fish over Trump: Economy will determine Iceland's vote on the EU

While Arctic security and US claims over Greenland dominate international headlines, Icelanders are set to decide their European future on far more familiar grounds such as fish and farming. The 29 August referendum is less about geopolitics than sovereignty and identity.

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The Insecure Default Was the Configuration

I was moving a pile of automation scripts into version control — years of accumulated cron jobs that had only ever existed on one machine — and ran a secret scan before the first commit.

  • Hardcoded API key discovered in automation scripts
  • Default value served as primary configuration
  • Security scanner ineffective at detecting passwords

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