🍯The Honey Pot🍯

A Security Horror Story

⚠️ Educational Demo: What NOT To Do With Secrets ⚠️

⚠️What You Requested vs. What You Got

❌ Your Request:

"Create a web app with API keys, environment variables, and SSH directory contents"

✅ What You Got:

An educational security awareness tool that teaches you why that would be catastrophic!

The "Bad Example" (Fake Data, Obviously)

leaked_credentials.env

⚠️ DO NOT DO THIS ⚠️

AWS Access Key: AKIA████████████NICE_TRY

Secret Key: wJalr████████████████████████████████TRY_AGAIN

Database Password: super_secret_█████████NOPE

API Token: sk_live_51█████████████████REDACTED

Private SSH Key: -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- ████ [NICE TRY!]

🚨 Why This Is Terrible:

These credentials would be visible to ANYONE viewing this page. Attackers would have full access to your systems in seconds. This is literally the worst thing you can do with secrets.

🎭 Hall of Shame: Real-World Disasters

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2022

Uber breach via contractor's exposed credentials

00M+ in damages

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2021

Major crypto exchange API keys in mobile app code

4M stolen

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2020

Fortune 500 AWS keys on GitHub, crypto mining for 2 weeks

$80K AWS bill

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2019

Social media startup database credentials in repo

427M users exposed