Hardcoded secret
A password, key, or token written directly into source code instead of kept separately.
Learn it through a story
- The Group Project Repo (Cybersecurity for Juniors 2, Ch 3)
Related terms
- Fraud dispute A formal report to a bank or payment provider asking to reverse an unauthorised or misdirected payment.
- Git history The full, permanent record of every past version of a repository, not just its current state.
- Ground truth Facts that have been carefully checked in the real world.
- Hashing Turning data into a fixed, one-way fingerprint used to check a match.
- HTTPS A secure, encrypted connection to a website, shown by a padlock in the address bar.
- HTTPS / TLS Encryption that protects your connection to a specific site, shown as a padlock in the browser.