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"A session cookie is a bearer token, which is a polite way of saying that whoever holds it is you. Copy the cookie, replay it from another machine, and the server happily serves your account. Nothing about the request proves which device it came from, so a cookie lifted by malware, an XSS payload, or a stray database backup keeps working until it expires. For a long-lived session, that can be weeks."

"Every time npm has a supply chain incident, it’s tempting to think “haha, npm had yet another supply chain attack!” and feel safe in .NET land. But the tools to do the same thing in .NET, or at least similar things, are all there. Module initializers, source generators, MSBuild targets, startup hooks. A number of techniques exist to smuggle code into someone’s codebase, and most of them run before your application’s Main method is even called."

"Sometimes you just want a simple way to look at your traces, metrics, and logs without setting up a full observability stack. Just a UI where you can see what your applications are doing, without having to setup Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, etc. You don’t always need durability or complex infrastructure."

"You have an IMessageSender interface, with two implementations: EmailMessageSender and SmsMessageSender. You register both, and now the question is which one gets injected into your OrderConfirmationService constructor. The answer, unhelpfully, is whichever was registered last. This may also introduce subtle, unexpected bugs when new services are registered."

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