It was 3: 07 AM when my phone began vibrating non-stop.
Server notifies. Unapproved login efforts. API secrets revealed.
My initial thought? Please let this be a false alarm.
It wasn’t.
A little automation script I wrote months ago indicated to support customer logs had actually mistakenly exposed sensitive information to a public S 3 pail. A rookie mistake, right? Except I had not been a novice anymore. I would certainly been developing secure automation systems for years.
That evening taught me something every programmer learns the hard way:
Safety does not fail all at once it stops working calmly, one careless decision at once.
Lesson 1: Automation Doesn’t Mean Auto-pilot
I had automated fifty percent my release process back-ups, synchronizes, cron jobs yet never set gain access to boundaries My manuscripts had much more consents than my actual admin account. Why? Ease.
Right here’s what my “straightforward” automation appeared like:
import boto 3
s 3 = boto 3 customer('s 3)
s 3 upload_file('backup.zip', 'my-bucket', 'backup.zip')No encryption. No restricted duties. Just blind trust that every little thing would "remain personal."