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by smitty1e 2496 days ago
Normalizing the data without vast sort/sed/awk gymnastics seems the key win.
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My understanding is there’s security and standardization benefits as well. If I’m remembering correctly there was a local keychain credential stealing attack around the time I was first looking at it and they had a plug-in available for detection the same day. While it wasn’t something magical you couldn’t write, test and run on your fleet yourself a central place to deduplicate that sort of work/test cycle and collaborate was compelling.