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pwdisswordfishyyesterday at 11:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

That's just a tautology.

"If the secrets issuer partners with X-corp for secret scanning so that secrets get invalidated when you X them, then when you X them the secrets will be invalidated".

The above is a true statement for all X.


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nightpoolyesterday at 11:17 PM

? Yes? Toomuchtodo is reminding the author (and other commenters), that github gists are one way to make sure secrets are secured / remediated before making a public post like this. Maybe not the most responsible whitehat action, but I can see it being useful in some cases where outreach is impractical / has failed.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Algolia has implemented this

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wat10000yesterday at 11:38 PM

English is not formal logic.

In formal logic, that statement is true whether X is GitHub, or Lockheed-Martin, Safeway, or the local hardware store.

In English, the statement serves to inform (or remind) you that GitHub has a secret scanning program that many providers actually do partner with.

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