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 ada1981 on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:13PM (#16621284)

If you can use any domain you like, that is great.

MyURL.com/101/passwords /private /logins

Is the idea that you'd embed this in a way that it is automatically triggered? Or that you would leave it in plaintext somewhere and assume someone would eventually visit it if they were snooping around your stuff?

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by jstanley on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:14PM (#16621308)

You can use any domain you like, although I don't think I've documented that. Just point any domain at 46.101.33.42 and it'll work.

(But obviously it needs to be a hostname you're not already using for something else).

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by rocqua on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:14PM (#16623749)

Sorry to offer unsolicited advice, but are you sure you wanna use a fixed IP for that? Seems more reasonable to ask people to CNAME to a domain you guarantee will always point to the correct servers.

This means you don't break the system when you move IP address. Moreover, should you ever need to, you can round-robin the domain for either reliability or load-balancing (though I doubt that would be necessary).

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by Moru on Monday March 19, 2018 @08:09PM (#16624700)

If you are serious about testing this, someone will just DDOS the ip and the monitoring is offline for everyone.

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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by ada1981 on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:03PM (#16623656)

Thanks!

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