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 Kiro on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:41PM (#16620767)

Maybe I don't understand the concept but why would you ever put a secret public?

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by dewey on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:43PM (#16620795)

You don't. You put it in a thought to be private place but you'll find out if it gets public at some point that way.

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by Kiro on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:08PM (#16632076)

But why host it somewhere reachable at all?

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by dewey on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:16PM (#16632148)

It's a canary, it should ideally never be triggered but in case it does you want to know about.

Another way would be to put a fake user in your users database and then watch password leaks and see if it shows up. Then you know you've been breached. It should never happen but if it does it's good to know.

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