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So after 6 months of asking for production API token we've finally received it. It got physically delivered by a courier, passed as a text file on a CD. We didn't have a CD drive. Now we do. Because security. Only it turned out to be encrypted with our old public key so they had to redo the whole process. With our current public key. That they couldn't just download, because security, and demanded it to be passed in the fucking same way first. Luckily our hardware guy anticipated this and the CD drives he got can burn as well. So another two weeks passed and finally we got a visit from the courier again. But wait! The file was signed by two people and the signatures weren't trusted, both fingerprints I had to verify by phone, because security, and one of them was on vacation... until today when they finally called back and I could overwrite that fucking token and push to staging environment before the final push to prod.

Only for some reason I couldn't commit. Because the production token was exactly the same as the fucking test token so there was *nothing to commit!*

BECAUSE FUCKING SECURITY!

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  • 5
    What bothers me is none of this shit even surprises me anymore!
  • 1
    Ooommmgg 😂😂😂 this is fucking hilarious 😅
  • 1
    Is this for a product/company you could name?

    Just trying to figure out what sort of industry requires this kind of process!
  • 1
    Wow having a courier delivering an API token is the craziest thing I ever heard lol
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