Better generic secrets detection starts with finding non-secrets

**tl;dr:** Aikido Security describes how Betterleaks reduces noise in generic secret scanning by adding manually authored suppression rules for publishable credentials (e.g., Stripe publishable keys), which cut false positives by ~2.37% on a Common Crawl dataset; the post explains detection strategies, limitations (format collisions, contextual checks, liveness tests), and why some results still require manual triage.