Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

  • seven basic rules for developers setting up password systems

    If any part of your user interface or code truncates password plaintext input at a length of less than 255 characters, it’s a bug. If you can’t cope with password plaintexts that contain SPACE and TAB characters (update: or if you impose any charset restrictions) it’s a bug. If your passwords are not hashed, it’s

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-22

    Bulk-deleting all my #GoogleReader subscriptions before they end up in #GooglePlus and become impossible to manage ; Hello #NetNewsWire # Hopefully will not be as bad as that, but I don't need to take the risk # @chrisgerhard @ramtopsrac GR is getting a "facelift" ; I stopped using it because of the social stuff, for

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  • “Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq” (at Computerworld)

    “Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq” Username: Google ; Password: 2bon2btitq Passwords are hip again; but can we please just get past the “word” aspect? Google are (in partnership with Citizens Advice Bureau) running a campaign about how to stay safe online, and to this end adverts are appearing in London tube trains explaining how to

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-21

    If you are going to be using the M3 tonight, check out @HantsPolRoads for details. #M3DieselSpill esp northbound M3, Jct 7-5 # Howto switch off window-opening animation in #Lion : http://t.co/LXC5DsDw (last paragraph) # Warmth. http://t.co/dClKKxvA # Pleasant evening: tending fire, cleaning house, making popcorn, sipping a snifter of fine gin, & reminiscing. Little cogitation

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-20

    "Where's the Steve Jobs of IT security?" http://t.co/Vko03g3w – Answer: We don't need one. We need everything else to not suck, instead. # @mroesch I take the point, but for security no single platform should ever become dominant due to monoculture effect. # @mroesch I know where to get some very very very good chocolate…

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-19

    "The elephant seal was around two metres tall and can weigh more than 6,600 pounds" http://t.co/BooGAMpZ spot the #bogus #number #precision #

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  • Unit testing 🙂

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049735/Extrovert-seal-got-way-preening-penguins.html ‘Each time he looked more and more surprised to see us there because I don’t think he was used to seeing humans.’ The elephant seal was around two metres tall and can weigh more than 6,600 pounds. 6,600lbs? That’s a suspiciously precise number. I wonder… http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=6600lb+in+kg 6600 pounds = 2 993.70964 kilograms Ah, right.

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-18

    I have not yet had to install a winch for my bookcase: http://t.co/dzMux1jj # So far I got up at 0610, emptied the bread oven, got breakfast, two coffees, split wood, stoked the fire, wrote an article… now for work. # @darrenmoffat I may need two breakfasts by the end of the day. # New:

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  • “Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security” (at Computerworld)

    “Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security” Amazon, Google, the Platform and Security An Ex-Amazonian Googler’s justifiable hostility towards Security A few days ago Steve Yegge posted a rant to his Google+ account with the intention that it would stay Google-internal. Oops. You can read the rant – now replicated all over the net, for instance

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-17

    Preacher on R4 arguing that children murdered in the reoccupation of Canaan in the Bible must have had happy deaths, going to eternal life # Somehow I can't find sympathy with the idea that sane people, or young children too young to be indoctrinated, are ever happy to be murdered # @ramtopsgrum http://t.co/k42JSxRA from the

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  • Twitter Updates for 2011-10-16

    New: Hartley Wintney Pub Rum-tasting Notes http://t.co/Oe518ROc # Anybody want to try the 1983 MacPaint on a Mac emulator? http://t.co/b45jcWqo – see http://t.co/9VX2tGqF for via http://t.co/gbkIFPRz # In the UK [2008 stats] you are in the bottom 99% if you earn less than £149,000. Bottom 95% earn less than £61,500 http://t.co/gVGeBgC9 # I am the

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  • Fireplace Fun – Concrete Explosions and Delight!

    So a couple of weeks ago I had my chimneys swept and I have been looking forward to recommissioning my living-room fireplace ever since – but with a new twist. The sweep – smashing guy, very knowledgable – essentially told me that I was doing my wood fireplace wrong, using a coal-fire style basket with

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