Dict Hash Collision DOS Slows Lookups From 1ms To 47 Seconds?!

HASH COLLISION DISASTER! Attacker crafts colliding keys! Dict becomes linked list! O(1)→O(n) lookup! 47 seconds per request! Complete outage! 470K users logged out! $2.3M lost! Infrastructure FIRED!

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