I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets

An interesting look at one of the consequences of using git and public repo's.

Does leave me wondering how long before someone has a setup which detects and tries to exploit these in real-time, which feels like it could be nasty.

Also a challenge with these posts is they were unlikely to have been able to contact all the affected developers who have got exposed secrets, meaning that any that were uncontactable/non-responsive are likely still vulnerable now, I'd guess that means they're about see what happens if those secrets get abused, as people start exploring this more...

There are hundred of setups like that already. If you push an AWS key or similar publicly you may have a bitcoin miner or botnet running on your cloud in matter of minutes.

Nope. Because if you push an AWS key then it gets automatically revoked by AWS.