Opus 5.5 builds a spider that crawls git history for leaked keys

After one leaked key cost a three-person startup $82,314 in 48 hours, the author had Opus 5.5 build a key detection tool that scans an entire git history.

Bubo

@buboseesArchived 21 days agoOriginally posted 2026.10.06

Bubo @buboseesOriginally posted 2026.10.06

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You deleted that API key. Git didn't. One leaked key cost a 3-person startup $82,314 in 48 hours. So I had Opus 5.5 build a spider that crawls your whole git history and lights up every key still in there.

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