Items tagged security in Jan, 2004
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Slouching toward Big Brother (via) Security is a trade-off # 30th January 2004, 7:18 pm
Election boxes easy to mess with (via) More on Diebold’s ludicrous security # 30th January 2004, 7:11 pm
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 # 20th January 2004, 10:37 pm