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		pitched on July 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on... How about scanning for any string with high entropy? Might be easier to get buy-in if we don’t all have to bike-shed over what the prefix is.

CoffeeOnWrite on July 5, 2022 [–]

That’s helpful but the token prefixes are also helpful. You might be interested in GitHub’s reasoning at https://github.blog/2021-04-05-behind-githubs-new-authentica...

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