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Comment by jjcm

5 days ago

Most interesting aspect of this is it likely learned this pattern from human-written code!

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kentonv  4 days ago

It's not a 100% bad idea. If you lose the encryption key, you lose the data. Data loss is bad! So better keep a backup of the key somewhere. I can see how it got there.

Defeats the purpose in this case though.

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