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Re:Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor by gfiorav on Friday April 25, 2025 @01:47PM (#43796551)
You know, I get the spirit of this criticism. But, specially in the age of AI, we're going to get thousands of barely reviewed websites on Cloudflare.

If you know what you're doing, turn these protections off. If you don't, there's one less hole out there.

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Re:Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor by wat10000 on Friday April 25, 2025 @02:22PM (#43796953)
In all seriousness, I don't see the justification for blocking "/etc/hosts" but allowing "'". The latter is probably a million times more likely to trigger a vulnerability.
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Re:Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor by int_19h on Saturday April 26, 2025 @07:00AM (#43802532)
The problem is that people who don't know what they are doing join the cargo cult and then impose these requirements on people who do know what they are doing.
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