Tag: security
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Security? Why Bother
I’ve been working on an internal information delivery system for an unnamed multi-national. I just logged in to their production database to set up some new features. One of which involved updating their user database. While poking around, I noticed that all but 62 of their roughly 400 users had the same password hash (meaning…
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Thoughts on Online Privacy & How to Protect Yourself [OR How Facebook Can Save Your Identity]
The following is an excerpt of an email I wrote in response to this article Facebook can ruin your life. And so can MySpace, Bebo A lot of the current batch of social networks have very poorly designed privacy controls. On facebook for instance, it’s very hard to tell which of your contacts have access…
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Non-Alpha-Numeric Passwords
Why won’t my bank allow me to use non-alpha-numeric characters in my online banking password?! Don’t they want my password to be as secure as possible?