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		marginalia_nu 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Atop 2.11 heap problems As long as you bind to localhost it's fine in theory. Though any network code still needs to be rigorously hardened.

echoangle 10 months ago [–]

> As long as you bind to localhost it's fine in theory

But only if you assume that the data being transferred is public, right?

With the described method, any non-privilieged user could access the data from the TCP socket, right?

marginalia_nu 10 months ago | [–]

Information in top isn't much of a secret though.

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