You Just Shared Your API Key With an AI. You Didn’t Even Notice.
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Why the AI-coding era needs a local-only AI secret manager — and how I ended up writing one in a single Python file TL;DR — Coding assistants read your repository to help you. The moment an API key lands in a .env file, it can end up in a chat transcript, a log, or a bug report. concealer is a loca…
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- 2026-09-18 05:37 · DEV Community — AI
You Just Shared Your API Key With an AI. You Didn’t Even Notice.