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themole
17y ago
I played around with Flash Media Streaming Server a while back it and might be able to do what they need it to: He could setup the freebie developer's version (at least it used to be free) on his computer. Then you'd need to make a flash pl
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themole
17y ago
My last three jobs have been w/o direct or indirect connections: 1. I was working at an ISP help desk and a local computer repair company called in desperately needing help with a *nix box. Went out on my own after a shift and helped the te
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themole
17y ago
They should also be suggesting straight up data validation before sticking anything in the db. No reason to let things get that far if you're expecting a number and they give you garbage.
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themole
17y ago
Yeah, just setup the pop3 account and download it. I think you export your contacts as vcards - even if not most of your contacts should be right there in your email. I fire up thunderbird everyonce in a while to basically backup my emails
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themole
18y ago
It sounds more like a badly designed web app than Alexa doing something it shouldn't. If it really did do harvest passwords and log in with them, we'd hear a lot more about it. As gojomo said it was probably passing the username and passwor
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themole
19y ago
"A better idea would be to set a cookie with the hash of the user id + some secret salt + a timestamp. The secret salt gives us some protection against said script kiddie, while the timestamp will make the hash expire. Neat!" From those cou
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themole
19y ago
it's a flash based chat/instant messenger with video or an online video capture and editing app.