Datadump keyword highlighting and context detection
23 May 2019
The detection of keywords in datadumps has improved. First of all, there are more lines around the keyword match included in the snippet you see on the timeline. This allows you to better judge if the datadump is something you should worried about or not.
When the snippets get bigger it's easy to lose track of where your matching keyword is. For this reason keywords are now highlighted in the snippets. If there are several keyword matches, the snippet will consists of multiple matches, with a few lines before and after each match.
A bit of an experimental feature is context detection. The data is now scanned for certain characteristics. For instance if a datadump looks like a password dump, you will see an alert icon next to notification. If it looks like the data contains API keys or password, you'll see a warning for this. If things work well, I'll likely do more work on context detection.
-- edit 26 may --
Unfortunately, the context detection worked much better in test than in production. We're seeing too many false positives. It's off now, and back to the drawingboard.