Negative Space: security
- Cooky Controversy
- You may have heard about the controversy over letting web sites store “cookies” in your web browser. There are privacy and security concerns over these cookies. These concerns are not as major as the detractors claim, but neither are they as minor as the boosters claim.
- Form validation with in_array in PHP
- When validating form input, you often will use an array of valid responses. Watch out if some of those valid responses are integers!
- Insecurity questions on phones and at banks
- How important are the last four digits of your social security number? That and a high school yearbook can get a hacker your bank account.
- Is my Comic Ground password secure?
- While your password is stored securely, it is not sent over the net securely.
- The last four digits of your social security number
- The last four digits of your social security number are the least guessable part of your SSN.
- Paladin Security
- Paladin Security advertisement
- Single User Mode
- If someone has physical access to your computer, they can do a lot more; you can’t ultimately protect yourself from all physical-access hacks, but you can make them more time-consuming.
- Tumbling to SSN privacy
- Guessing social security numbers based on the statistical analysis I talked about in “The last four digits of your social security number” now has a name: “tumbling”.
- “I might be in Colorado…”
- It’s been a long time since I’ve traveled on a trip short enough not to have checked bags. Normally, if I’m going on a short trip, I drive, because the hassle of flying isn’t worth it.
