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How Do You Secure API Keys in an AWS Application?

A developer finishes a weekend project, pushes it to a public repository, and goes to bed. Somewhere in a configuration file is an API key for a paid third-party service.

  • API keys are strings used for service requests, tracking usage, and determining permissions.
  • AWS Secrets Manager securely stores and manages sensitive values like API keys.

Touch grass

Open touch-grass-murex.vercel.app. On the same Wi-Fi, node server.mjs --lan lets a phone open the card at the door. I used it on October 13 for a 25-minute garden card in Phoenix.

  • Touch Grass provides a brief for gardening tasks on a phone
  • Created garden card on October 13 with planting suggestions
  • Operates independently of network, no API reliance

Intune SCEP Certificate Profile Failed: A Read-First Assignment and NDES Triage

Wi-Fi or VPN stops working on a batch of laptops, and the cause turns out to be the SCEP certificate profile: it shows Pending for days, or Error with 0x87D1FDE8 .

  • SCEP certificate profile may be Pending for days or return Error 0x87D1FDE8
  • Six handoffs between Intune admin center and device certificate store
  • Check DeviceManagement-Enterprise-Diagnostics-Provider Admin log for clues

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