A single-user personal knowledge repo contained 557 prior secret leaks across 16 files, with the highest density being 32 GCP API keys embedded in markdown notes. The values had already been pushed to origin, meaning rotation — not deletion — was the only real fix. Personal "second brain" vaults quietly accumulate credentials faster than production codebases because nobody treats notes as code.
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