Re:Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
by rafael09ed on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:03AM
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No one owns random strings. They can claim whatever they want to be "their" tokens
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Re:Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
by blitzar on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:20AM
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Not your random string not your coins
Re:Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner
by Arnt on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:30AM
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Tencent isn't claiming ownership of these strings, it's claiming that strings with a particular format have special meaning wrt. Tencent's APIs. It has told Github about that format.
This is fundamentally similar to how UPS, DHL etc. document how to recognise their tracking numbers.
"Their" and genitive in general doesn't necessarily mean ownership. It's often used for various sorts of connection. For example, "my address" doesn't claim ownership of either the street or the house, "my age", "my wife", all connected to me somehow but not owned by me.