in reply to Re: Paranoid about web application security
in thread Paranoid about web application security

Yuck, yuck, and doubleyuck! All this means is that either

You cannot take the idiot out of the user, so plan accordingly. If I break into a user account, I shouldn't be able to do anything more than screw with that specific user. If I can bring down the site by grabbing a low-priv account, that's the problem. It's the user's responsability to choose and use a good password. It's your responsability to protect the other users when (not if!) they don't.


My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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