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# [I Spent 25 Years Avoiding Malware. Claude Code Stored 600 of My Secrets Anyway.](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/claude-code-security-credentials-plaintext?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

I have not caught a single piece of malware in 25 years on a keyboard. Not one. I spot a .scr disguised as a PDF from across the room. I smell a sketchy postinstall script ten meters away. At 14 I even wrote two or three viruses myself, just to under...

Apr 27 · 11 min read · rentierdigital.hashnode.dev  
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