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"Keys of the Departed": Ghost Account Hunter - Uncovering the Dead Identities Still Haunting Our Systems

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine . What I Built When I first started thinking about the Ghost in the Machine challenge, I pictured something we rarely think about when discussing cybersecurity: an account nobody remembers creating, a deployment key nobody remembers owning, or a service account that continues working long after the…

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Why a local SMTP catcher is not an email integration test

Your Playwright test fills the signup form. The app sends the confirmation email. Mailpit shows the message with the right subject and link. The test passes.

  • Local SMTP catcher only catches errors within network, not external issues.
  • Real testing inbox needed to verify email reaches recipient's inbox.
  • Different real inbox per test run ensures accurate results.

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