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PII-hound – A fast, dependency-free PII scanner in Go
by dbuckman·Apr 8, 2026·4 points·5 comments
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Dependency-free Go binary with Luhn validation — Presidio and Nightfall already cover this space.
Strengths
- •Reservoir sampling handles gigabytes of data without high memory usage
- •Aho-Corasick keyword matching enables high-performance custom rule definitions
- •CI/CD ready with --fail-on-pii flag and machine-readable JSON output
Weaknesses
- •PII scanning is crowded — Presidio, Nightfall, and AWS Macie dominate enterprise
- •No mention of false positive handling or confidence scoring
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Target Audience
DevOps engineers, security teams, compliance officers
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Presidio · Nightfall · AWS Macie
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