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17 min

Exit 0 means allow

Porting an internal Claude Code safety tool from Linux to macOS took a couple months, and nearly every failure I found on the new platform failed in the permissive direction while printing a checkmark on the way out.

Security Tooling
7 min

Already tracked

A live Stripe key sitting in a tracked `.env` file, in a repo that had listed `.env` in its `.gitignore` since 2023. The line was correct and it had never done anything.

Git Security
9 min

We billed them for the cleanup

A site I built in 2018 at a previous agency spent about two months redirecting phones to a sweepstakes page, and the invoice we sent for cleaning it up was larger than a year of the maintenance nobody had ever sold them.

Agency Security