Posts tagged security in Jan, 2004
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Slouching toward Big Brother (via) Security is a trade-off
Election boxes easy to mess with (via) More on Diebold’s ludicrous security
Defending web applications against dictionary attacks
Over at Reflective Surface, Ronaldo M. Ferraz discusses the usability of an authentication system that locks down an account for a certain period of time after three failed login attempts. Ronaldo sees this as a trade off between usability and security, but I see it more as an added security issue in that it allows malicious third parties to lock other user’s accounts armed only with their username.
[... 398 words]non-consensual http user tracking using caches. Interesting security issue involving HTTP caching headers