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some of the issues of NOT storing images in a secure database.. [message #173992]

Tue, 17 May 2011 12:45

The Natural Philosoph
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Performance you may get, security comes extra..

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/security-experts-go-to-war-wife-t argeted-20110517-1eqsm.html

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Re: some of the issues of NOT storing images in a secure database.. [message #173995 is a reply to message #173992]

Tue, 17 May 2011 13:50

Willem Bogaerts
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On 17/05/11 14:45, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Performance you may get, security comes extra..
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/security-experts-go-to-war-wife-t argeted-20110517-1eqsm.html
>
Sorry. Somehow my brains hurt when I read "security expert" and
"facebook" in one sentence. But for what it's worth, I did read the
article. Do you mean he could not have guessed the right URL if the
pictures were stored in a different fashion?

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Re: some of the issues of NOT storing images in a secure database.. [message #173997 is a reply to message #173992]

Tue, 17 May 2011 14:33

Jerry Stuckle
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On 5/17/2011 8:45 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Performance you may get, security comes extra..
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/security-experts-go-to-war-wife-t argeted-20110517-1eqsm.html
>

Which has absolutely nothing to do with storing pictures in a database -
as anyone with an ounce of sense would know.

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Re: some of the issues of NOT storing images in a secure database.. [message #173998 is a reply to message #173995]

Tue, 17 May 2011 14:45

The Natural Philosoph
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Willem Bogaerts wrote:
> On 17/05/11 14:45, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Performance you may get, security comes extra..
>>
>> http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/security-experts-go-to-war-wife-t argeted-20110517-1eqsm.html
>>
> Sorry. Somehow my brains hurt when I read "security expert" and
> "facebook" in one sentence. But for what it's worth, I did read the
> article. Do you mean he could not have guessed the right URL if the
> pictures were stored in a different fashion?
>

He might have guessed it, but since the access would have been
essentially via a script, putting security into the script would have
been trivial.

The way it was done was 'security by obscurity' which if you have enough
time is always crackable.

> Kind regards,

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