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by segudev 1445 days ago
Unfortunately, it's not as simple as that. Lots of secrets are "generic" (think of a DB user/password combination), meaning that you need to take into account the surrounding source code context to be able to determine if they are a "real" secret.

Here is a full explanation if you are interested: https://blog.gitguardian.com/why-detecting-generic-credentia...