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    maskd avatar maskd 8 months ago | link | on: The Mirai Botnet Was Part of a College Student Minecraft Scheme

    Don’t miss Brian Krebs’ amazing investigative work from back in January. (He correctly identified two of the three defendants as being involved in Mirai.)

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      tthisk avatar tthisk 8 months ago | link | on: How to Cancel Promises in JavaScript

      I think none of these approaches cancel/close the underlying resource, except for using observables? Is there any timeline on when fetch is going to support aborting, now that the cancel proposal for Promises has been rejected.

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        maskd avatar maskd 8 months ago | link

        AbortSignal and AbortController are in the WHATWG DOM spec now, and Firefox and Edge already support it. So I suppose the timeline is “whenever the other major browsers implement it”.