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points by dannyw 1 day ago | 0 comments

Unless you're clever enough to only poison user agents known to be macOS and CLI. You'd probably get by.

xz-tools was only caught because it had a bug causing slow startups and someone was micro-benchmarking Postgres and decided to dive in further.

[–] genxy 1 day ago

One person, at that particular time. The person and the task were also a couple standard deviations away from the norm, the world was incredibly lucky.

[–] throwawaysoxjje 1 day ago

The cert is provided before the user-agent string is