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I'm curious about the insignificant issues.


Things like insecure SSL options (we knew that, but wanted to support older devices for a little longer - we've bitten the bullet and switched to SHA256 certs now, and turned off RC4)

They recommended a bcrypt hashing factor which isn't realistic for fast responses, it would have pegged a core for over a second.

A few things that were just testbed specific, and a couple of rate limits we had missed.

Some "internal details leaked in errors" - in two minds about that. Sometimes it helps debug. We mostly log the verbose error internally now and give the user a unique key that makes log grepping easy. Harder to self-help if you hit an error we didn't make a nice error code for yet though and you have tech clue.




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