capture-the-flag

No Country for Old Keys

#osint

• No Country for Old Keys
  • The Clues
  • The Search
  • Back to the Past

The Clues

We need to find the API Key of someone named Anthony McConnolly

The Search

I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine so I looked up “Anthony McConnolly” and found this GitHub

Alternatively you can also search for his name on GitHub and filter by users

For some reason I could not find his GitHub on the first page of Google.

He only has one repo with a single main.c file with a macro API_KEY, but it seems like he has changed it to a placeholder.

Back to the Past

Let’s view the revision history of main.c

Seems like the API Key was changed, lets look at the change

There’s our key!