AI agents might expose sensitive data buried in Git history
doodlestein · x · 2026-08-28
A developer raised concerns that public Git repositories likely contain sensitive or bad data in their history that isn't in exposed branches. While humans rarely dig this deep, AI agents now have the capability to discover and potentially leak this forgotten information, posing a new security risk.
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