>> do people really expose Redis on the internet?? The same logic could be applied to exposed MongoDB and we know there's been a plethora of leaked data in recent years.

how is this comparable? SSL is secure transport - if you leave you mongoDB wide open people will just as happily steal your data over SSL. The problem was never MITM attacks on in-flight data.

What about cross datacenter replication.

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