Name: 1,122 passwords public on GitHub, because of one button
Uploaded: 2026-11-10T06:00:00.000Z
Description: Apiiro found that "Out of 104,185 public copies of this file on GitHub, 1,122 hold a real secret." Pick "Yes, and don't ask again" in Claude Code "and it saves that exact command, secret included", and "After the tenth interruption, most stop reading commands."

1,122 passwords public on GitHub, because of one button

November 10, 2026 · by Tony Tang

Apiiro found that "Out of 104,185 public copies of this file on GitHub, 1,122 hold a real secret." Pick "Yes, and don't ask again" in Claude Code "and it saves that exact command, secret included", and "After the tenth interruption, most stop reading commands."

Source: "Coding Agents Copy Your Secrets to a Hidden File. Thousands Are on GitHub", Apiiro, November 5, 2026 (Shmulik Cohen, Matan Giladi) https://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-again

The intern, the sticky note, the house, the guards and the photocopier are dramatizations; every quote and number on screen is from the sources.

So who's to blame, Claude or you? Comment one or two.

1,122 passwords public on GitHub, because of one button

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