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Re:Moving persistent data out of Redis by avian on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @04:50AM (#13372852)
I believe this restriction was put in place to limit searching for accidentally committed AWS keys.
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Re:Moving persistent data out of Redis by whatismyip on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @06:41AM (#13373249)
AWS keys are already being detected and the account owners get notified when they are found. Private key material was a bigger issue at one point in time (i.e dotfiles/.ssh/id_rsa).
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