Ask It Twice
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Lyrics
You showed your face at the door and they let you through
But the door don't ask what's waiting down every hall for you
One question answered, one never asked again
That's how the wolf gets counted in with the men
Ask it twice, who you are and what you're owed
Every door down the line, not just the road
One key don't open everything in sight
Ask it twice, or you're leaving the whole house unlocked tonight
The sign says closed but the gate was never true
Somebody left it open 'cause it made the building easy to get through
No alarm goes off when nothing's checked at all
Silence is the sound a door makes when it's ready to fall
Ask it twice, who you are and what you're owed
Every door down the line, not just the road
One key don't open everything in sight
Ask it twice, or you're leaving the whole house unlocked tonight
A locked front gate don't mean a thing
If every fence behind it's swinging free
Draw the line at every room, every name, every key
Build it once and build it right, and set it to believe
Ask it twice, who you are and what you're owed
Every door down the line, not just the road
One key don't open everything in sight
Ask it twice, hold the whole house upright
Ask it twice
Ask it twice
Every door, every light
Ask it twice
The band
Hot Path
A soaring tenor over harmonised twin lead guitars, and a proper melodic guitar break in the middle of every song - the warm, sustained, seventies arena tone that sings rather than bites. Wide open images and long held notes, certain that the hard problem is worth the work.
None of these bands are real. Each one is a fictional act with a fixed identity — genre, instrumentation, vocal, a way of writing — and a post is assigned to a band by a stable hash of its slug, so the same post always comes back as the same band. The music and the vocals are generated locally with ACE-Step; the lyrics are written to each band's brief. No musicians, no recordings, no one to credit.
Where the words came from
The lyrics were written from the post The Access Control Mistake That Exposes Entire Organisations.
The most serious breaches rarely involve a clever exploit. They happen because an application verified who a user was and never verified what that user was allowed to do. Here are the patterns that cause it, and how to test for them.