cloudflare is such a meme https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-solution-to-compression-oracles-on-the-web/
like they start off by saying yeah we got this phd on the case of security. we have a proof of concept that does not do the horribly fucked up thing http makes you do
then there's just this perfect couple of sentences in a row
We decided to use selective compression, compressing only non-secret parts of a page, in order to stop the extraction of secret information from a page.
fucking genius. turing award right here
We found that in most cases a secret within a webpage can be described in terms of a classical regular expression.
so you wrote a regex
to identify secret info
....
These descriptions allow us to identify secrets online as a response is streamed.
also a normal thing for someone to say
@hipsterelectron now i want to read about New Age Regex!
@Bredroll i have it for you but we need to move past the deeply limiting finite automaton model
