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To defend Canarytokens here (and I’m totally biased because we make it) some tokens can’t be easily avoided. Ie. If the token is a Slack/AWS/something API key, then the only way for the attacker to profit is to use it, and the moment they do, they tip their hand. The joy of Canarytokens is not having to set up infrastructure to get the alerting win, with very little effort.

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Not "knocking" the idea but to be honest using someone else's API key and expecting that no one is going to notice sounds really dumb. I guess if that is the level of intelligence you are up against, then "winning" can indeed be quite easy. Although I would argue if the goal is to restrict access and they managed to gain access then regardless of what they do next, whether it is smart or stupid, they have "won".

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