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It can be useful anywhere you have sensitive information that you wouldn't want to fall into the wrong hands, or more specifically that you would want to find out if it did.

It could go in backups, in your git repository, bug tracker, internal wiki, etc.

For an average non-techy, I don't know... they might want to put one in their diary?




For any web/cloud service, I think this might be easily triggered when the service is trying to be helpful. I.e. when fetching previews, displaying in/active links, etc...


You're right, and this does happen.

If that's a problem for you then you can mitigate it a bit by checking the User-Agent and IP address in the alert email you receive.


lol, just add a captcha to the trap page :D




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