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OkayPhysicistyesterday at 9:28 PM1 replyview on HN

[1] https://phoenix-live-view.hexdocs.pm/security-model.html

There's a guide in the LiveView docs that walks you through the security model. To be clear, you need to always assume that the user can send you anything. That's a fact of any networked system: Clients need to be assumed to be completely under the control of an evil user, because at the end of the day it is impossible to know whether you're talking to the client you wrote, or some evil program written by an adversary. Any function that acts as a handler for an event/message can be called by the user, at any time. You have to use session/socket state to handle authorization.


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sevenzerotoday at 4:12 AM

I am well aware of that, its much much easier to account for this with regular HTTP handlers in other stacks though. The issue here is that you can call random functions if you guess the signature correctly. Even authorized/authenticated users can and will missbehave if given the chance.