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dannyw • yesterday at 2:48 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Unless you're clever enough to only poison user agents known to be macOS and CLI. You'd probably get by.

xz-tools was only caught because it had a bug causing slow startups and someone was micro-benchmarking Postgres and decided to dive in further.


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genxy • yesterday at 5:05 PM

One person, at that particular time. The person and the task were also a couple standard deviations away from the norm, the world was incredibly lucky.

throwawaysoxjje • yesterday at 3:49 PM

The cert is provided before the user-agent string is