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Service Accounts in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are the main vector to hack an account: it’s easy to use them wrong and end up with a compromised key and a lot of headaches. What is a Google Cloud Service Account? Service Account (SA) is the identity in Google Cloud that you use to authenticate and authorize application and services. They come in two flavours: user and google managed. User Managed Service Accounts A user managed service account is, surprise, intended to be manually managed. What...