Open Source Beat

Nolex Chrome extension dialog highlighting detected AWS key in code paste

Nolex: The Local Hero Stopping Devs from Feeding Secrets to AI

GitHub scanned repos and found thousands of leaked API keys. Now imagine pasting those into ChatGPT without noticing. Nolex catches them first, all in your browser.

5 min read 1 month, 1 week ago

VS Code editor showing EnvGuard detecting a JWT token leak with a red underline warning in the environment file

Security & Privacy

One Developer's VS Code Extension Just Made Committing Secrets a Lot Harder to Mess Up

A developer built a free VS Code extension after nearly pushing a live Stripe key to GitHub. EnvGuard now catches 30+ types of secrets before they escape into the wild.

6 min read 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Nolex: The Local Hero Stopping Devs from Feeding Secrets to AI

One Developer's VS Code Extension Just Made Committing Secrets a Lot Harder to Mess Up