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by Piskvorrr 2693 days ago
As in, anybody with a link to /delete could delete things? No identification/authentication/authorization needed?
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> I spent the next few days fixing several of problems that conspired to make that happen...

Yes, I was a total n00b in 2001. But then, so was e-commerce.

and fwiw, I knew exactly how bad our security was... I kept my boss informed, but he had different priorities until Alexa "hacked" our mainpage :p