Why I Built a Zero-Knowledge, Client-Side Encrypted Burning Note App Over the We

<h1> Most developers have done this at least once: </h1> <ul> <li>Sent a password over Slack</li> <li>Shared credentials in email</li> <li>Copied secrets into a notes app and

<p>got annoyed that pastebin and similar sites log everything and keep your text forever, so i built one where the server literally cant read what you paste. heres how the

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<h1> I built a self-hosted one-time secrets service in Node — here's the threat model </h1> <p>Sharing an API key in Slack feels wrong. Password managers work great inside a team

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<h2> Executive Summary </h2> <p>I built BurnLink, an open-source file sharing service that prioritizes privacy through client-side encryption and zero-knowledge architecture. This

<p>I had a screenshot to send. Nothing secret — a stack trace from a side project — but it had an internal hostname, a file path with my username, and a chunk of a config file in