XKCD (as usual) makes a very good point – this time about password strength, and I reckon it’s something app developers need to consider urgently. Geeks can debate the exact amount of entropy, but that’s not really the issue: insisting on mixed upper/lower and/or non-alpha and/or numerical components to a user password does not really [...]
Filed under: Good practice / Bad practice by arjen on Thursday, August 11, 2011 | Social tagging: application > database > entropy > java > mariadb > mysql > password > php > python > rails > ruby > security > web > xkcd
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The call for papers for OSDC 2009 is open until 30 June 2009; yes that’s only a few more days. Submit your abstract and do a talk at this fab conference! This is a grassroots style conference designed by developers for developers. It covers Perl, Python, Ruby/Rails, PHP, Java/Grails and Open Source operating systems as well as some business [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized by arjen on Friday, June 26, 2009 | Social tagging: brisbane > grails > java > mysql > opensource > osdc > osdc2009 > perl > php > python > rails > ruby
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