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by zricethezav 1440 days ago
`pass` by itself might introduce false positives. `passwd` and `password` are common and more likely to be in the ROI of a secret. That said, I'm not opposed to `pass` by itself. I'll have to think about this one...

> but I assume they were chosen based on the statistics?

Nope, not statistics. Identifiers and keywords are chosen based on what I see out in the wild being a software engineer.