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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by shawn on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @07:57AM (#17958871)
There is no security benefit to forbidding pasting. https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/

Why do people do it? The same reason people believe /dev/random provides security benefits.

It's important to ignore the correct things. (But it's often hard to figure out what to ignore.)

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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by theandrewbailey on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:45PM (#17961323)
Of course, because everyone should be using /dev/urandom instead. \s
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