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| bio | website | twitter.com/secboffin |
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| location | Leicester, United Kingdom | |
| age | 31 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | May 8 at 13:20 | |
| stats | profile views | 445 |
Smartphone security boffin. Author of Professional Cocoa Application Security and Test-Driven iOS Development; currently writing APPropriate Behaviour. Software engineering and security blogger.
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May 8 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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May 8 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 18 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Apr 17 |
accepted | What vulnerabilities could be caused by a wildcard SSL cert? |
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Apr 17 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Mar 10 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Feb 6 |
comment |
What is the difference between SSL vs SSH? Which is more secure? SSL and SSH were developed in parallel (both being released in 1995), so whether SSH even could have used SSL is not clear. Whether it should have used the contemporary SSL 2.0 is very dubious too :-) |
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Feb 6 |
reviewed | Needs Improvement Is it possible to boot into root's /bin/bash on a LUKS encrypted device? |
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Feb 6 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Feb 6 |
reviewed | Excellent Is it useful to determine the name of the server software while doing a penetration test? |
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Feb 3 |
comment |
What chars should I not allow in passwords? Because it's more likely to be handled incorrectly by the underlying implementation. You don't want to start truncating passwords just because somewhere in the bowels of your runtime they get converted to C strings. |
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Jan 13 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Dec 29 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Dec 23 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Nov 18 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Oct 7 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Sep 28 |
comment |
Are anti-virus companies companies regularly committing software piracy? Do you know that F-Secure isn't licensed? Their corpus of clean Adobe files could come from the installation of Photoshop that their designers use. |
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Sep 21 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Sep 15 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Aug 16 |
revised |
Secure memcpy for pure C Update a dead link. |
