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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by softawre on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:32PM (#16622825)
Why would anybody buy this (dropbox), I can recreate this with a simple ftp server and 30 minutes of coding!
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Re:Show HN: URL Canary – Get an alert when someone finds you... by CapacitorSet on Monday March 19, 2018 @05:07PM (#16623183)
Dropbox is not a devs-only product, given that eg. the CEO might want a personal Dropbox folder, or one might need a shared folder between the marketing team and the developer team (and even then, at the enterprise level it is not unheard of to use simpler alternatives like SFTP/NTFS shares).

Canaries on the other hand are exclusively used by technical people, who won't mind developing and spinning up a tiny honeypot.

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