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I blame firewall admins for this. If app was using port 1234, it was simpler just to block this port. After while this make app unusable so app creators tunnele

• stuff4ben 11y ago
  And I blame lazy software developers who had security holes in their apps that endangered enterprise networks. I'm an app developer and we shouldn't be placing blame on someone trying to do their job and protect their internal network. We need to own up and start making security a priority over yet another feature someone wants in their app. Yes we were quite clever to tunnel things through port 80, but we're just delaying the inevitable.
  • egeozcan 11y ago
    I partially agree but isn't the port blocking mostly about reducing the attack surface? If I were managing infrastructure (I never did), just trusting a browser and its security model sounds better than following bunch of white-listed apps for zero-days.