On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas <[email protected]
> wrote:

>  Forget about using environment variables. Those are the easiest to
> checkout if you're root in a Linux server for instance. I could easily read
> it in a quick test.
>
> I'm curious though to see how easy would it be to use GDB to attach to a
> running application after the deploy script has removed the file with the
> key after the application has booted...
>

Trivial.  If it's in memory, you can rip it out.

http://timetobleed.com/ripping-oauth-tokens-or-other-secrets-out-of-tweetdeck-twitter-app-and-other-apps/
http://seriot.ch/abusing_twitter_api.php#32

etc.



-- 
Cheers

Koz

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