Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds your secrets

Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by josefresco on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:44PM (#16619881)

This looks neat. What is a good use-case for your average techy? What about your average non-techy?

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by jstanley on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:46PM (#16619908)

It can be useful anywhere you have sensitive information that you wouldn't want to fall into the wrong hands, or more specifically that you would want to find out if it did.

It could go in backups, in your git repository, bug tracker, internal wiki, etc.

For an average non-techy, I don't know... they might want to put one in their diary?

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by rplnt on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:51PM (#16619964)

For any web/cloud service, I think this might be easily triggered when the service is trying to be helpful. I.e. when fetching previews, displaying in/active links, etc...

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by jstanley on Monday March 19, 2018 @12:53PM (#16620005)

You're right, and this does happen.

If that's a problem for you then you can mitigate it a bit by checking the User-Agent and IP address in the alert email you receive.

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by dorgo on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:47AM (#16626884)

lol, just add a captcha to the trap page :D

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