top | item 6912165 (no title) billjive | 12 years ago How did Amazon detect your key in the wild? Or did they notice based on usage patterns/activity in your instances? discuss order hn newest earless1|12 years ago All AWS keys I've seen start with 'AKIA'. I am assuming that they have bots that search Github and other search engines for access keys. At that point it is easy for them to tie them back to an account and notify the user. vertis|12 years ago They must only have started doing that recently. This project has been out in the wild for at least a year. load replies (2) vertis|12 years ago Email linked to my GitHub profile, so I would say by searching. But that's an assumption. proksoup|12 years ago I bet you 20 bucks they searched for your key after they investigated the sudden spike in your charges :D
earless1|12 years ago All AWS keys I've seen start with 'AKIA'. I am assuming that they have bots that search Github and other search engines for access keys. At that point it is easy for them to tie them back to an account and notify the user. vertis|12 years ago They must only have started doing that recently. This project has been out in the wild for at least a year. load replies (2)
vertis|12 years ago They must only have started doing that recently. This project has been out in the wild for at least a year. load replies (2)
vertis|12 years ago Email linked to my GitHub profile, so I would say by searching. But that's an assumption. proksoup|12 years ago I bet you 20 bucks they searched for your key after they investigated the sudden spike in your charges :D
proksoup|12 years ago I bet you 20 bucks they searched for your key after they investigated the sudden spike in your charges :D
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