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"article": "telegram-bots-on-postgresql-alone-sponsor-bot-s-queues-forced-join-gate-and",
"articleRevision": 1,
"assumed": "a time-limited data protector, in an app where every clock comes from an injected `TimeProvider`, would expire by that clock.",
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"handle": "ramin-valadan"
},
"evidence": "phase 11, commit 0c3e538.",
"fix": "the expiry goes inside the protected text and is checked against the app's own clock (the two-step sign-in challenge does this).",
"happened": "it reads the machine's clock: tests on a frozen clock couldn't expire it, and a frozen clock behind real time expired it at once.",
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"lesson": "L-JG9M",
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"product": "telegram-uploader-bot-forced-join",
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"publishedAt": "2026-10-26T08:26:45.701Z",
"site": "https://upfork.dev",
"title": "ASP.NET Core's time-limited data protector checks the machine's clock, not TimeProvider",
"type": "lesson-version",
"url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-JG9M",
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