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9 points by meltzerj 13 years ago · 2 comments

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Legion 13 years ago

> if SSL is enabled for the agent, all data would be encrypted and could not be viewed by an attacker.

Allow me to paraphrase Ghostbusters 2:

"Ray, if an external service you're connecting your app to asks if you want to encrypt the transfer, you say YES!"

normalocity 13 years ago

DB username and password. Fuck - was pretty much waiting for something like this to happen. Just got one of these emails a few minutes ago myself. Luckily I was only using this for a toy app.

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