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by richthegeek 1761 days ago
The alternative (as in, current reality) is "Whoops. I hit ctrl+entry while copying my secret and no-one noticed for a month. Guess all our data is leaked now!"

It's also up to each provider what actually happens when the "revoke" action is triggered. Maybe they just warn you immediately, which is still better than nothing.

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But if it's not a URL, Ctrl-Enter won't do anything.

If it is a URL, it opens in a web browser, and now you have problems.

Have shorter lived secrets. Also, not sure we should be solving for the "ctrl c" of secret use case tbh.