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> For all we know they cherry picked the responses they tested from a single site that doesn't handle anything sensitive.

I don't think you understand how Cloudbleed works. It doesn't matter what site they picked; every single vulnerable site can leak the exact same info. It's literally impossible to cherry-pick that data.

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I don't think you understand how the internet works. Some websites only serve static content and don't deal with any sensitive information. Without seeing Cloudflare's data set there is no way to verify that the responses they picked are a representative sample.

Ok you really don't know how Cloudbleed works. Go read up on it. Every single vulnerable site can and did leak the same information. The only way to "cherry-pick" it would be to literally throw away the responses that you saw and didn't like, or in other words, by lying.

I think he was trying to explain to you that, for this particular leak, what was leaked was the private memory of the CloudFlare servers. So that memory doesn't have all a single site in it. It doesn't matter what site triggered the data to be output, the data that was output can still come from any CloudFlare customer even if they had no pages with the condition that triggered the issue.

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