[BayesianDice]

And then your text editor might leave a backup copy with filename "xyz.php~" which PHP won't interpret and Apache will happily serve to a curious user as plain text.

So I've heard :-)

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   <Files "*~">
       Require all denied
   </Files>

   <Files "DEADJOE">
       Require all denied
   </Files>

(last one assuming you're using joe)