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by Zealotux 947 days ago
I don't understand; I'm not going to increase the size of my assets just to please the very small minority of hackers who want to play around. I'd rather open-source my code.
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Michvalwin 947 days ago
Exactly. My largest page before and after minifiying has a size of 78KB~ and 70KB respectively. With GZIP it goes to 13.2KB. Just under the 14KB mark.
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meiraleal 947 days ago
which is actually a security risk
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kevsim 947 days ago
If people seeing your frontend code is a security risk, I've got some bad news for you...
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meiraleal 947 days ago
See the source code and interacting with it running is different.

every system has an attack surface. If you make yours easier for any person to use "alternative" paths, I also got some bad news for you.

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KPGv2 947 days ago
the implicit argument you're making here is that the only acceptable security risk mitigation strategy is one that works 100% of the time
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