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sk-1234 Is Not a Secret, It's a Docs Example, and 10% of You Shipped It Anyway

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Nearly one in ten internet-facing LiteLLM gateways were running with the literal example admin key from the documentation still active. Not a weak key. Not a leaked key. The key that's printed in tutorials, sk-1234 , sitting wide open on the internet, handing out admin access to whoever bothered to…

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  1. 2026-09-13 11:01 · DEV Community — AI
    sk-1234 Is Not a Secret, It's a Docs Example, and 10% of You Shipped It Anyway

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