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Philosophy of door locks

When working on security, there is something extremely important to keep in mind at all times. We are not trying to make systems impenetrable. We are trying to make it real, real hard for the attacker, that’s all. If an attacker has physical access to your system, you lost. All measures, passwords, firewalls, everything is ...

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Welcome to “Holy Hash!”

This is a lighter software security blog. I start it now mainly because of two reasons. First, something has to be done. The recent break-ins at the likes of LinkedIn and Yahoo show that even at the large companies people do not understand the basics of security. By looking at what is proposed and advised ...

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