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by Argorak 4423 days ago
As far as I can tell, this is a throwaway key thats used for tests.
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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...)