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title: "💭 The State of Secrets Sprawl 2025"
description: "!https://blog.gitguardian.com/the-state-of-secrets-sprawl-2025/"
date: 2025-03-14
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  - thought
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      <div class="embed-card-description">GitGuardian&#39;s 2025 report reveals 70% of leaked secrets remain active two years later. Discover the alarming state of secrets sprawl &amp; protect your organization.</div>
      <div class="embed-card-meta">GitGuardian Blog - Take Control of Your Secrets Security &middot; blog.gitguardian.com</div>
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Good report, make notes later

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>