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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.
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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.

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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.
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Re:I Found 39 Algolia Admin Keys Exposed Across Open Source ... by jgalt212 on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:53AM (#47376175)
because the poster works for Accenture.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/acc...

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