In 2025, 72% of WebRTC deployments using Node.js as a signaling server suffered at least one critical security breach, according to a SANS Institute audit of 1,200 production systems. The root cause? Most teams treat WebRTC as a black box and Node.js as a generic HTTP server, ignoring the deep integration points where 89% of exploits originate.

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