After the Vercel Breach: Rethinking Where Your Auth Secrets Live

If you've been anywhere near dev Twitter or Reddit this week, you've probably seen the panic: Vercel reportedly suffered a security breach that may have exposed environment variables not marked as "sensitive" in their dashboard. The immediate advice from the community? Rotate your keys. Now. Whether this turns out to be as bad as the initial reports suggest or not, it's a wake-up call. A lot of us (myself included) have been storing API keys, database credentials, and auth secrets in our deploym