Comment by NitpickLawyer
5 months ago
The PSA is good, the article is meh. There is too much misdirected anger towards google here, IMO. I agree it sucks to be the false positive, but it'd also suck more to unknowingly be part of phishing campaigns and not know.
On top of that, it is also recommended to serve user content from another domain for security reasons. It's much easier to avoid entire classes of exploits this way. For the site admins: treat it as a learning experience instead of lashing out on goog. In the long run you'll be better off, having learned a good lesson.
Exactly! For a web dev in 2025 to still not know security best practices that have been around for 20+ years is a failure on the part of the dev.
I’m sure I don’t know ALL the "security best practices that have been around for 20+ years" and this is perfectly fine as long as I’m able to react quickly. See also https://xkcd.com/1053/.
It's fine if you personally didn't know that. But if I'm paying for a service, I expect the provider to understand basic security best practices that have been industry standard for 20+ years. And if they don't, they should be hiring people who do.
XKCD 1053 is not a valid excuse for what amounts to negligence in a production service.
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