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It turned out I remembered the number incorrectly. It was actually 5000 http requests! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42726827 https://news.ycombinator.c
by andai 1y ago
It turned out I remembered the number incorrectly. It was actually 5000 http requests!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42726827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42726827
However, upon further investigation, this is a special case triggered by a security researcher, and not the normal mode of operation.
- yunohn 1y agoIf one reads the security advisory - the security researcher’s claim is that a particular API endpoint would accept URLs without deduping, so they were able to send 5000 URLs to it - nothing more sophisticated.