misterrobot

Hm, ok. Would it have been OK if I hadn't posted it under "Ask HN"? Surely this site supports sharing opinions like this one in some contexts -- it's not like this was a political shitpost or something. Right?

But, perhaps more relevant, the post doesn't say "flagged" on my end (which I'm pretty sure they do when they're flagged).

You're kind of right. At the same time, the comments appear to be answering the question, so...

Weird, this post appears to have been nuked from orbit. What happened?

Because when you host it yourself, it can be off of the public internet.

XSS is the most common bug on the internet, and there is nothing interesting or novel about this that warrants an article in my opinion. My problem is that this article makes people scared in a way that I do not think is productive. Kudos to whoever found the bug for finding it and making everyone safer, but I thought the article was needlessly clickbaitey. I agree I should probably be less cavalier-sounding though, sorry.

Yeah, this is literally just stored XSS. The fact that they don't even mention XSS in the article just amplifies its click-baitiness.

LOL, these are literally just XSS attacks, the sky is not falling. This is such clickbait. Posts like this make the security community look bad IMO. Report it and move on.

"Division" i.e. multiplying by the multiplicative inverse doesn't require the modulus be prime; it just requires that the number you are finding the inverse of and the modulus are relatively prime.

Please don't apologize, this is an excellent paper! In retrospect I feel a little bad for nitpicking, honestly -- it's a really fascinating read :)