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Hi, former pentester here. If any one of your trusted clients is using a google/chromium based browser, the telemetry from that browser (webdiscovery) would reveal the existence of the subdomain in question. As others have said, security by obscurity doesn't work.


Current pen tester here and this guy is right. There was a Google blog post years ago where Google planted a site with an unguessable url and indexed it and used edge to surf on the site. Shortly after this site was also listed on Bing.

Google had a "gotcha" moment when Microsoft responded basically with "yeah we didn't steal it from Google, you had telemetry enabled"

Total shitshow


Would love to read this if a link is still around





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