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It's not like Websockets prevent this completely. eBay port scanning: https://www.ghacks.net/2020/05/25/ebay-is-port-scanning-your...



That's a pretty clever attack. It's clear everything can (will?) be exploited at some point, so it's usually down to features vs. user protection.

Unless everyone is ok going back to running random .exe files from emails, I guess.




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