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Re:My First 10 Minutes on a Server by zeeZ on Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:31AM (#11914780)
Plus, if you're super paranoid, pulling doesn't require leaving any ports open and software listening on the repository.
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Re:My First 10 Minutes on a Server by tamana on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:11PM (#11918192)
But it requires leaving a port open on the DB server where an attacker can get a whole copy of your database, or destroy it.
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Re:My First 10 Minutes on a Server by amdavidson on Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:03PM (#11918505)
Many database servers are not serving databases solely to themselves and have that port open as part of the normal course of operation.
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