The list was left accessible on an Elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it.
X leaked because of misconfigured elasticsearch is pretty much a meme at this point…
What does elasticsearch actually do? I went to their website and it’s written in corporate speak which I don’t understand.
If I understand correctly it’s a form of database that specializes in full text indexing, to allow build basic search engines for within a website.
So like that stupid google search toolbar that bad websites will use that only searches their website?
Or the search feature such as the one inside of lemmy. I think the search in MDN is powered by elasticsearch.
It’s not stupid, it’s very useful on a lot of websites actually. But given the licensing issues with ElasticSearch I think it makes more sense to just use PostgreSQL’s full text search features instead of ElasticSearch, and I think that’s what lemmy does. It’s also likely simpler to setup since if you’re already using PostgreSQL it doesn’t add any dependency.
Torrent :)