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  1. Thanks for the write up! I’ve always wondered how the endpoint was exposed. Keeping the ElasticSearch endpoint out of reach of the internet is a common approach, I believe.

    Publishing dumps is definitely a good decision. If dumps are produced regularly (even just every few months), and archived on long-term storage such as the Internet Archive, it also becomes less likely that someone will feel the need to download everything for the sake of preservation.