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asabjorn on March 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gab has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked

It is way easier to find a software vulnerability in a backend you have the code for, instead of probing a black-box backend for vulnerabilities. For instance, you can use static analysis tools to discover vulnerabilities.

industriousthou on March 2, 2021 [–]

So way more people are able to identify those vulnerabilities and fix them?

o_p on March 2, 2021 | [–]

Sure, after they stole your data already

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