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dragochatyesterday at 8:29 PM1 replyview on HN

we love to say things like these, but... most security issues are in fact BYPASSABLE - virtualization, firewalls, autorollbacks, ro-filesystems and so on are many of the tools we have on our belsts

decades of WordPress have taught us that insecure apps can 100% be securely deployed

it's a bit of an art, most recently edicated devops/sre ppl suck at it, but it's doable

...aeons a go in a former life we ran production apps that got hacked weekly, and nobody batted an eye at it, backups servers recreated from secure ro-images were span up with last-clean-app version, occassionally we had fun disassembling whatever reverse shells and other mallware that got beached on our systems (but couldn't "swim" bc everything we ran was "too exotic" for them to figure out the next steps of a proper attack), development and business continued as usual with zero interruptions etc


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gamerslexusyesterday at 9:35 PM

If you go against every principle (defense in depth, security through obscurity), maybe you should ask yourself "am I willing to be on the record saying this when my company gets hacked?"

There can be multiple reasons system crumbles, do you want to be behind one of them... intentionally?