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by Dylan16807 24 days ago
> It didn't become any more vulnerable.

That depends on how secret the URL was. If you go from needing an exploit to just visiting a guessable link, that's significantly more vulnerable.

> If they wiped prod db and put up goatse on my site I would have still paid and said thank you provided I was told how that was done.

Well most people wouldn't, and for good reason.