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I'm an architect at Microsoft specializing in application security, and custom application development.

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Why can't the FBI read the key embedded in the iPhone's secure chip/ROM directly from hardware (silicon)?
Feb 18, 2016
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Why would I choose SHA-256 over SHA-512 for a SSL/TLS certificate?
Jul 19, 2017
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This company is telling me that I need a firewall. Do I?
Aug 22, 2016
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Is there a field length that is too short to allow harmful SQL injection?
Feb 28, 2017
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Do bad passwords produce bad salted hashes?
Oct 27, 2014
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Windows language pack update with a gibberish name
Sep 30, 2015
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How should high net worth individuals secure their financial accounts?
Jul 27, 2016
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What is different about being targeted by a professional attacker?
Oct 5, 2014
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Are passwords that are manually typed in really unrecoverable from memory or disk?
Jan 22, 2015
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Can an HTTPS site be malicious or unsafe?
Aug 29, 2014
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