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https://github.com/paxos-bankchain/pastey/blob/master/app.py...

:)

Oh, that's hilarious.

To their defense, it seems to be an app that demonstrates usage of the library. Also seems to used for benchmarking. That would explain why the Redis database can be easily flushed through a simple URL.

That's actually a call to a rickroll.

It still flushes the db first?

Hence the ouch.