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		roro159 on July 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy DoS with regex is a thing: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Regular_expression_Denial_of... StackOverflow had a similar case a while back: https://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-...

andreareina on July 2, 2019 [–]

HN discussion of the StackOverflow incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12131909

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