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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by dredmorbius on Sunday July 26, 2020 @11:07PM (#23961909)
If your assumptions are repearedly demonstrated invalid they are wrong.

Change them.

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by bigiain on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:35AM (#23962699)
Personally, I reckon that applies at least as much (if not more) to the devs installing random software packages onto internet connected and un-firewalled servers - as it does to database developers who document clearly that their software is not intended and is actively unsafe to install on directly internet connected servers...

Cave ne recipiens donum...

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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by dredmorbius on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:10AM (#23963121)
If a thing should not be run in a given configuration then it should not be runnable in that configuration.

The vendor / developer has both awareness and capability to ensure this.

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