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by sneak 4742 days ago
Yes. You can't use force or coercion to rob a server of data, all you can do is ask nicely (or repeatedly).

In a just world, we would let full responsibility lie with those who deployed the machines without understanding the consequences of, e.g., no login failure rate limiting.

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an exploit is asking nicely, all I did was GET /????\n\n\n\nfjasdfuisdjflkwenuadfnwerAAJLKJFIEFSEIFJSDLFKJERIWERRISLDKJLDKJF and then I connected to a shell on port 8118? I mean, it just answered the request ...