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In similar situations I

1. Explain that the 'hack' does not actually fix the problem. This is absolutely the engineers responsibility. In your example Alice does not say that. This has always been sufficient.

2. I make a habit of sending emails or keeping minutes confirming such meetings and the details of who said what.

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This is about all you can do. But you're right. You have to explain it and document it: "It's trivial to change User-Agent, and any decent hacker would probably not be using 'curl' as their User-Agent. We can look at logs from past events to validate this assumption."

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