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Re:Toyota Accidently Exposed a Secret Key Publicly on GitHub... by GoblinSlayer on Friday October 14, 2022 @05:53AM (#33201503)
I don't think it's a regex pattern, most keys are random strings.
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Re:Toyota Accidently Exposed a Secret Key Publicly on GitHub... by semiquaver on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:42AM (#33203380)
That’s the idea. Add a deterministic prefix to make it identifiable as associated with a specific service.
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