63 forgotten secrets on a laptop found by Claude Code
Claude Code searched a home folder for keys, tokens and passwords without printing them, finding 63, including working AWS credentials from 2022.
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The LiteLLM incident involved a key left in an opencode.json that someone had committed. Afterwards, a developer wanted to see what their own agent could see. They opened Claude Code in their home folder with rules: find anything that looks like a key, token or password, report only file paths and variable names, never print a value, and change nothing.
It took about four minutes and found 63. These included 31 in .env files across old side projects, AWS credentials from 2022 that still worked, and an OpenAI key and a GitHub token stored in plain text.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Asked Claude Code to find every secret on my laptop and it found 63Published
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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