I'm sorry I wasn't sufficiently clear,
hanzer. I'll briefly restate my thoughts.
Any of us can make a mistake. All of us
do make mistakes, all the time. Sometimes our mistakes cause problems for others. When those are mistakes we make while operating Internet-facing services, those problems for others can be magnified and very far reaching. Apropos, knowledge of the best practices that mitigate those risks should be considered before operating those services.
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