Terraform

What's the issue with the following provider configuration?

provider "aws" {
  region = "us-west-1"

  access_key = "blipblopblap"
  secret_key = "bipbopbipbop"
}

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

It's not secure! you should never store credentials in plain text this way.