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12y ago
TLS is just a new name for SSL from version 3.1 onwards. It's much more secure then those older SSL versions. STARTTLS, a protocol used to negotiate SSL/TLS in some plain text protocols, is problematic if it isn't enforced. S
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12y ago
This is just an idea, but how about adding a function to your allocator that turns all future deallocations into a no-op?
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12y ago
Yes, if you require a user-specific random token in the request, the exploit doesn't work. But that's independent of GET/POST and not what you said in your earlier post.
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12y ago
It's not so hard to build a form and submit it automatically with JavaScript in order to get a user's browser to do a POST request to any URL you want.
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12y ago
Yes. The stuff on addons.mozilla.org is checked by real humans.
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Full ASLR on Linux requires compiling with non-standard options (-pie -fPIE). Linux distributions seem to do this only on a case by case basis. They should've enabled these flags for most at-risk software by now, but I'm not convi
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12y ago
The point is: Omnibox in Chrome sends every key stroke. The Awesomebar in Firefox doesn't send anything to Google until you initiate a search.
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All web servers I've seen open the key files before dropping root privileges. These should never be readable by anything but root.
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On my personal machines, I also setup a cronjob to automatically install updates. There's a small risk of breakage (I had one in 5 years), but I prefer that over a bill like op's.
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12y ago
This would also depend on hilariously bad permissions on /srv/www that allow the mysql user to create files there.
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The first time I saw it mentioned, I thought it was just a weird misspelling.