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micksmix

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About micksmix

https://github.com/mickgmdb

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    Comment #48130523

    This is also a good reminder to scan CI logs, not just source code. Shameless plug: I work on Kingfisher, an Apache 2.0 OSS secret scanner and validator written in Rust, that can a…

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    Show HN: Kingfisher, a fast OSS secret scanner with validation and blast radius

    I built Kingfisher, an extremely fast Apache 2.0 OSS secret scanner (Rust) that goes beyond simply finding secrets. - Live validation: checks whether a candidate secret actually wo…

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    Comment #45662710

    I'm curious how Kingfisher would do against the proprietary dataset: https://github.com/mongodb/kingfisher Any chance you could try and share results? Full disclosure, I built King…

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    Comment #45165323

    Loved this “lead bullets” framing, especially the parts on taint checking, scanners, and pre-processing/sampling logs. One practical add-on to the "Sensitive data scanners" section…

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    Comment #43215922

    That makes a lot of sense. I wish you the best of luck and will be happy to try it out as you continue to develop it!

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    Comment #43214408

    One of the main benefits of Semgrep is its unified DSL that works across all supported languages. In contrast, using the Go module "smacker/go-tree-sitter" can expose you to differ…

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    Comment #43214171

    This is a really interesting project! I'd love to hear how this project differs from Bearer, which is also written in Go and based on tree-sitter? https://github.com/Bearer/bearer …

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