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If they roll their own it also becomes less interesting to actively exploit.

Obviously this doesn’t really work for Zoom any more, since their footprint is too large, but it can stop driveby attackers in other situations. Nobody is going to expend too much effort figuring out joe schmuck’s homegrown solution, where they’d happily run a known exploit against the unpatched wordpress server.



Security by obscurity has been debated to hell and back. It only works if you stay obsecure... and don't leak your code.




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