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I was wondering what would be the safer option when users have forgotten their password
Send a randomly generated new password to the email address (all email addresses in my database are confirmed to work). Or
Send an email with a link that expires within...
Started by Marijn Huizendveld on
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As a user, I would feel my password is "safer" with the link.
Pretty much in an email doesn't seem that safe...
Email is like a postcard.
Obviously the latter is much safer.
The window of opportunity.
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I hear that Linux-based systems are better for security. Apparently they don't have viruses and do not need antivirus software. Even my university claims this - they refuse to have Windows on their servers, which is a real shame because we wanted to use...
Started by echoblaze on
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by 21 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Predominantly, I believe Linux is seen to be a safer choice.
To the exclusion of alternatives.
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A few weeks ago at out local .Net User Group meeting we had our sponsor from TekSystems give a quick speech in return for the pizza and soda. He mentioned that Software employees are less affected by the down-turn. He threw out a figure that Software ...
Started by ChrisLoris on
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by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
In a correction, things that were inflated, bloated, or otherwise 'out of whack' (to use a highly technical term) are brought back... .
As any Austrian Economist will tell you, this 'downturn' or 'recession' or whatever you want to call it is a correction .
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This may be a matter of style, but there's a bit of a divide in our dev team and I wondered if anyone else had any ideas on the matter...
Basically, we have some debug print statements which we turn off during normal development. Personally I prefer to...
Started by Jon Cage on
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by 14 people.
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Personally I always #define DEBUG=1 so I can catch it with either an #if or #ifdef
I myself prefer:
#if defined(DEBUG_ENABLED)
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If gives you the option of setting it to 0 to turn off the functionality, while still detecting that the switch is there .
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I'm using the MVC model (I think thats what its called) and I have seperated my site into smaller pages and includes.... I was wondering If its safer/better or worse (with no benefit) to check the same conditional twice... for example
I have an accounts...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If your edit_user.php file is publicly accessible, then you definitely need checks in there, so you could probably remove the other checks, as long as you're ... .
Well, it is redundant, which violates the "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY) principle of design .
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Is bottled water safer than tap water? How can you be sure?
Started by Elizabeth on
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So, I think that tap....
Boiled tap water is safer, I guess Of Course! Bottled water is a drain us a thousand times more than water from our faucet at home, and it's likely no safer or cleaner to the Columbia Water Center.
Lead to sickness.
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The C standard library is notoriously poor when it comes to I/O safety. Many functions have buffer overflows ( gets , scanf ), or can clobber memory if not given proper arguments ( scanf ), and so on. Every once and awhile, I come across an enterprising...
Started by Benjamin Pollack on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Maybe the first question to ask) library is safer ....
That are vulnerable to buffer overflows that you mentioned have safer versions which take the buffer length the deprecated methods, suggesting you use the safer methods instead.
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I want to store the page location the user came from (on my site). I want to do that for this example: say someone sent a comment without being logged in. "process_comment.php" will process it and send a header(location:$_GET['prev_page']); Of course ...
Started by Gal on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Sending user back from GET or even headers will allow crafty people to possibly abuse .
Is a safer option.
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In a Channel 9 interview, David Callahan of Microsoft said,
Yes we would like to give you perfectly safe tools. That would require a complete rewrite of the infrastructure on up. So instead we will give you strong, effective tools and guidance on how ...
Started by Jonathan Allen on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Just because we would.
Easier and/or safer maybe.
But even state of the art tools, things writing arbitrary parallel code either easy or safe .
It is possible to create safer tools.
In a Turing complete language.
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So, Im curious - I searched and didnt find anything - If youre in the South, is it safer to use a Sat in The North with IKS?
Cheers!
Started by Robotica72 on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at dsspros):
If you....
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