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Comment by 3eb7988a1663

16 hours ago

The post keeps saying "verified secrets" - how are they verified? Did the author attempt to login to each service? Or does verified just means that it looks like a valid token?

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ctippett  13 hours ago

Tools like TruffleHog[1] will attempt to verify any credentials it finds by making some sort of authenticated request.

[1] https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog#validation-

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