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by spullara 854 days ago
This actually looks like a concurrency bug in their request handling code that may have stored the user id and camera id in shared variables, under load the wrong camera id is seen by a user. At least based on the description of what they say happened.
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Yeah sounds like an issue with garbage collection/freeing up memory.
These are the kind of security gimmicks that I am terrified I will never fully internalize and, as a result, the code I might be proud of may in fact be a ticking bomb.