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Re:I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source ... by TechSquidTV on Friday March 13, 2026 @08:34PM (#47371962)
I have been developing an OpenClaw-like agent that automates exactly this type of attack.
Re:I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source ... by _pdp_ on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:04PM (#47372176)
Why? This is just regex search and there are plenty of tools that do this perfectly fine.
Re:I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source ... by emotiveengine on Saturday March 14, 2026 @12:17AM (#47373291)
Have to agree with _pdp_ on this one. I just don't see the need for an LLM agent to do a recursive grep for API keys in public repos.

Not saying people shouldn't build these tools, but the use case is lost on me.

It feels like the industry is in this weird phase of trying to replace 30-year-old, perfectly optimized shell utilities with multi-shot agent workflows that literally cost money to run. A basic Python script with a regex matcher and the GitHub API will find these keys faster, cheaper, and more reliably.

Re:I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source ... by system2 on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:36PM (#47372402)
None of those proven tools would make a man feel like a wannabe Mr. Robot.
Re:I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source ... by jgalt212 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:53AM (#47376175)
Re:I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source ... by hrmtst93837 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @03:04AM (#47374085)
Automating these sweeps works fine until you need to escalate beyond public misconfig and start hitting rate limits or WAF traps, at that point, blending in gets harder than it looks. If you focus on fast key discovery, expect a lot of false positives unless you build context awareness for the apps those keys unlock, otherwise you just end up chasing useless tokens all day.