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by pradn 1006 days ago
It's not reasonable to expect human security token generation to be perfectly secure all the time. The system needs to be safe overall. The organization should have set an OrgPolicy on this entire project to prevent blanket sharing of auth tokens/credentials like this. Ideally blanket access tokens should be opt-in, not opt-out.

Google banned generation of service account keys for internally-used projects. So an awry JSON file doesn't allow access to Google data/code. This is enforced at the highest level by OrgPolicy. There's a bunch more restrictions, too.