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by kiallmacinnes 1611 days ago
> but from my experience with Jenkins, I've seen using passwords in plaintext so many times, even in big companies

I reckon this has to do with how the CI tools are configured.

Everyone knows you shouldn't commit a secret to Git, so tools like GitLab CI which require all their config be in git naturally will see less of this specific issue.