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tamana on June 16, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: My First 10 Minutes on a Server

But it requires leaving a port open on the DB server where an attacker can get a whole copy of your database, or destroy it.

amdavidson on June 16, 2016 [–]

Many database servers are not serving databases solely to themselves and have that port open as part of the normal course of operation.

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