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Comment by ikisusi

I hope that providers whose APIs responded and interacted fully over unencrypted HTTP would go back to their historical access logs and check how widespread using plaintext HTTP is. If they don't have access logs for their API then they could just sample next 24 hours for API accesses.

Popular providers have so many API users today that even a rare mistake could expose quite many users in absolute numbers. Would rather have providers to check this out rather than have this poor practice abused by the next DNS hijacking malware affecting home routers.

parent ikisusi 2 years ago

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