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by kerng 2225 days ago
Interesting, history repeats. Didn't browsers implement firewalls a while ago to prevent arbitrary requests? Remember doing things like CSRF attacks on SMTP, POP (any text based protocol basically) and stuff like that long ago, but Firefox added mitigations to prevent connections to certain ports - I guess that browser Firewall feature can be used as mitigation to prevent these attacks.