One Subtle Regex Takes Down Cloudflare

Update: 2021-04-12

Description

On July 2, 2019, a subtle issue in a regular expression took down Cloudflare (and with it, a large portion of the internet) for 30 minutes.

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Tom Kleinpeter and Jamie Turner