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_qc3o on April 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Exec($_GET

Half the time these are just prototypes or throwaway projects or are behind password protected proxies. Relax people.

voltagex_ on April 29, 2014 [–]

Paul's Security Weekly (a security podcast) had their blog owned after inadvertently removing the .htaccess (the password protection in your example) from their admin directory.

ASneakyFox on April 29, 2014 | [–]

I'm sure he quickly loss viewership as a result too.

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