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Nah.

Bots looking for exploits is rude, spamming an endpoint with more traffic than normal is rude.. but a human trying to figure out the API that you exposed to the internet? That's just fair play.

Also, better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. The author is adding value to the world while hurting nobody, and the answer would likely be an automatic "no" anyway.



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