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by mostafaberg 3408 days ago
I don't think it's illegal or wrong to have that search, those mistakes are made by developers who aren't paying attention to security, and from experience those leaks will never be resolved UNTIL they get widely exposed, until then, lots of those people will just shrug it off.. you're actually doing a favour to the users who depend on those developers, you never know when the next leak will be and it might be stopped by forcing the developers to fix it. it's not about you, your service, nor the companies, developers who are leaking secrets like that, it's about the end users and people who are affected, my two cents, put the search back, expose it, it's already exposed and probably black hats already have the secrets and don't want to notify the devs of their mistakes. anyone else who disagrees with you doesn't really understand how big this is, your service is amazing and I totally appreciate the work you did, if someone thinks you're "getting attention" or "evil" they really are not looking at the big picture, the "evil" ones are the people who already have that leaked data and keep it for their personal use.
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