Most people have tried it. You are writing a script, which connects to a service using a user name and a password or you are using a Shared Access Service token to access insider builds from Microsoft and you just put the “secret” values right there in your source code. After all – it is only you who can access the data on your computer right? and you will of course remember to mask out these secrets if you ever need to share the script…

Well some times we forget and some times hackers to get access to files on your computer and suddenly you might have leaked data or secrets to public places, which you shouldn’t – or sometimes we don’t even realize that we have exposed a secret.