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		speedgoose on May 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCP CloudSQL Vulnerability Leads to Internal Conta... Isn’t the blur effect too light on the screenshots? I may be possible to recompute the /etc/shadow file.

kccqzy on May 27, 2023 [–]

And what would that accomplish? Knowing the contents of /etc/shadow of a random (virtual) machine that belonged to someone else that you could not access, one that most likely already ceased to exist.

speedgoose on May 27, 2023 | [–]

It’s still a bad practice to blur information that supposed to be hidden.

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