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Stop scanning. Start reading changelogs.

byTom A.·28 days ago

Unpopular opinion after a year of this: my best findings have not come from a scanner. They have come from reading the product's own release notes and asking what had to change underneath to ship that feature.

A new export format means a new parser. A new SSO option means new session handling. A new mobile release means the API grew endpoints the web client never calls.

The scanner tells you what everyone else already found. The changelog tells you what shipped last Tuesday and has been in front of maybe nine people.

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siOmar F.·28 days ago

Same, plus their engineering blog and their job postings. A listing for a Kafka engineer tells you something about the architecture that no amount of port scanning will.

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heLena K.·27 days ago

Both, surely? The scanner runs while you sleep and costs you nothing. Reading is what you do with the hours it saves you.