Added Security Checks on Messages
Today one of the users of my data feed emailed me saying that we were sending bad values for a few fields for a few messages. Turns out, we were getting some data that was clearly either the internal Security Team trying to find weaknesses, or someone was stuffing messages in a vain attempt to get data. Where I'd be expecting a UUID, I was getting "cat /etc/passwd" - no joke.
So I had to take the time to expand the incoming message filters to include these fields so that we filter these out as opposed to thinking they are possible users. It's not a huge deal, but it's just another thing that I didn't expect to have to do today, but really needed to get out because of the security implications.