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Canary

Demystifying the term.

This topic really does not belong under “networking”, but since there is no other place to put it for the moment, it will go here.

The purpose of this page it to provide some clarity as to what a “canary” is in term of web technologies. This is because the term can apply to numerous different things, each of which is completely something different altogether than the other. You following?

Canary Tokens

• Canary Tokens

Canary tokens are an interesting web service that has all sorts of useful applications. To be brief, canary tokens are unique identifiers that allows a user to recieve a notification when they are used. The identifier can be nearly anything, from an email address, dns name, file, folder, image, credit card, app, vpn configuration, etc, etc…

Canary Warrant

Canary warrants or warrant canary is a method of communication which aims to implicity inform users of a breach in security.