In some large part this essay is a follow-on to the “You Are the Security Breach” essay. It’s a result of a knock-down drag-out I got into on a technology mailing list. True I have quite a discussion about security in my upcoming “The Minimum You Need to Know About the Phallus of AGILE” book, but this particular discussion needed to be had in a more general context. Each and everyone of you is being … Breaching TLS/SSLRead more
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You Are the Security Breach
If you are using XML, JSON, or the other trendy free text data transmission formats loved by script kiddies, you are the security breach. It’s possible your company doesn’t know it yet, but they will. Seriously people, I’ve seen XML doing this: <ssn>123-45-6789</ssn> How about JSON doing this? { “firstName”: “John”, “lastName”: “Smith”, “ssn”: “123-45-6789”, Laugh all you want, script kiddies code systems up like this all the time. They never went to school for … You Are the Security BreachRead more