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		umvi on July 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured ... And what if the thing I'm building isn't intended for the public internet?

tremon on July 27, 2020 [–]

Then why are you building it on the public internet?

umvi on July 28, 2020 | [–]

I'm not. I'm just using flask/mongodb/whatever for some internal app. But if it's secure by default I need to jump through a bunch of hoops to secure something that won't even be on the public internet.

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