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November 7th, 2026 at 6:44 AMClaude Code's “Don't Ask Again” File Exposes Passwords and Keys in 1,122 Public Copies on GitHub
Passwords and API keys that developers typed into commands they approved in Claude Code are sitting in public GitHub repositories, where anyone can read them. When a user selects "Yes, and don't ask again," Anthropic's AI coding assistant can save the command, word-for-word, including the secret, in a project settings file. Software security company Apiiro said yesterday that 1,122 public
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