user name
Keep it simple – user names
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2012-07-18
- Technology, Login, random, rules, user id, user information, user name
All right, now after the lengthy discussion on user names and ids let’s have some simple rules: Do not use sequential numbers for user ids. Do use random numbers for user ids. Do not use any scheme for user names that ties (semi-)public user information to the user name. Use user nicknames (aliases) if “natural” ...
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What’s in a name?
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2012-07-17
- Technology, good name, rule, selection, unpredictable, user id, user information, user name, user names
Here is something quite interesting. Nobody ever considers the user names. They are just sort of “given”. Well, are they? Most of the time, they are not. They are assumed and designed into the system one way or another. And they can have an impact on security. An old saying goes that a secure Windows ...
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.