Show HN: IDEViewer – Security scanner for malicious IDE Extensions

Category: security

Tags: security, ide-extensions, supply-chain-security, developer-tools, scanner

Score: 7.8/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 8)

IDEViewer is a cross-platform security tool that scans developer workstations for supply chain threats from IDE extensions, AI tools, and dependencies. Its innovation lies in combining IDE extension risk analysis, AI tool configuration audits, and secrets detection in a single tool, addressing a known blind spot in workstation security.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, security engineers

Repository: https://github.com/securient/ideviewer-oss · Go · Apache-2.0 · 12 stars

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