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caciarabot: the secret feature logs how many people, not which ones
The segreto feature in caciarabot keeps
a roster of who has posted — display names only, no message content, because the
Bot API cannot list a group’s membership — but its dry-run log line wrote those
names out in full. It now logs a count instead
(db905db), and the
README’s Privacy section says so explicitly: the events say how many people a
secret was about, never which ones. The change also cleared CodeQL alert
py/clear-text-logging-sensitive-data, whose “sensitive data” label was firing
on the word “secret” rather than on a credential — the dataflow was real even
where the rule’s name was not, and the count is all the operator needs to see the
feature working.