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		bananarepdev on April 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure A... Why does an extremely dangerous tool, such as a database cleaning tool/library, rely on an environment variable to define the target?

tgtweak on April 9, 2018 [–]

What's the ideal way to do so? Most of the production systems I've seen distinguish between prod and staging with only this.

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