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by mjec 3y ago
> HTTP got basic auth, which is crap because plaintext password transmission happens... Plaintext submission happens with HTML forms too. The problem with Basic is the password goes with every request. That means you're exposing a l
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When I was four my father explained how many atoms are in an amoeba(blog.mjec.net)
1 points by mjec 9y ago|0 comments
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by mjec 10y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why don't companies run their own nameservers? I get why you don't want to run email - it's highly reputation driven. But as far as I can tell, running nameservers is no harder than running webservers
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by mjec 10y ago
There is an existing solution to give you this protection, it's called port knocking.
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by mjec 10y ago
Ah good yes, please do generate all of my passwords on the server side and then send them via HTTP.
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by mjec 12y ago
> Shouldn't this "advice" demand substantiation or evidence? I think so, and evidently so do others. Already a gentleman by the name of Brendan Molloy has put in an FOI request for the documents on which this advice was ba
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by mjec 12y ago
> The algorithm is public Clearly so -- except the AEC explicitly say "The algorithm is the trade secret."[1] Which to me says they don't know what algorithm means. [1]: http://easycount.mjec.net/2013-12-09
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by mjec 12y ago
Write to your Senator, say the AEC's refusal to comply[1] with Senate Order 330[2] is wrong and you'd like it challenged. (Note that while it was moved by a Greens Senator, I'm not affiliated with the Greens and this is not a
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by mjec 12y ago
The Electoral Commission has since refused to comply with the Senate order to release the source code: http://lee-rhiannon.greensmps.org.au/sites/default/files/ron...