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linsomniacyesterday at 10:54 PM0 repliesview on HN

This is your reminder to set up canary tokens: https://canarytokens.org/nest/

I had a token I set up 3 years ago for AWS that I hadn't used. I was recently doing something with Claude and was asking it to interact with our AWS dev environment. I was watching it pretty closely and saw it start to struggle (I forget what exactly was going on), and I was >50% likely it was going to hit my canary token. Sure enough, a few minutes later it did and I got an email. Part of why I let it continue to cook was that I hadn't tested my canary in ~3 years.