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		drdaeman on March 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I think tumblr has a huge security hole Yes, you are right. And in this exact case they (mis-)edited the file, that contained passwords (i.e. test2.php in my improvised example).

CWIZO on March 19, 2011 [–]

Sure, I was replying for this hypothetical situation that you guys ware discussing, where they would store passwords in a different file outside of webroot ...

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