Likely it is just a throwaway. If nothing else, this might remind those who see it that you can leak private keys / passwords if you put then in source control

Likely it is just a throwaway. If nothing else, this might remind those who see it that you can leak private keys / passwords if you put then in source control. Chris Poole described having this exact problem, in his recent post about 4Chan being hacked - AWS keys in the commit history. (http://chrishateswriting.com/post/84931829578/when-a-bad-day-gets-worse-getting-hacked-twice-in-one http://chrishateswriting.com/post/84931829578/when-a-bad-day...)