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Comment by tdiff

6 months ago

So the attacker has known in advance that the secret was stored in google photos? Is it a common way to store passwords, or is some piece missing here?

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dmonitor  6 months ago

Likely a common way to store recovery codes. Similar to those bots that scrape github for API keys

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