The Code Book

The Code Book

When I was a boy, secret codes fascinated me, but eluded my understanding.  Oh, the simplest of them were easy enough to grasp, such as the Caesar cipher, where the alphabet is shifted by a set number of letters: Plain alphabet a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t...

What Your Users Don’t Know (Part 2)

(This is part 2 of a series on web security; see part 1.) In my last post we saw that what your users don’t know can hurt them. In other words, how securely you handle your users’ private data behind the scenes can have profound implications both for your...

What Your Users Don’t Know (Part 1)

(This is part 1 of a series on web security; see part 2.) What’s wrong with this code? [gist]3105417[/gist] Any jokester who says “it looks fine to me” will be sent to the spice mines of Kessel. But I think for observant readers, a couple of critical...