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Monday September 10, 2007
10:34 AM

Excuse for lack of security

[ #34405 ]

Often, when I warn of security concerns for newbie web programmers, they retort "but I don't have anything of value... it's just my blog, so I don't care".

The point is, they have a server. It's a potential spamming location, or anonymous platform from which to launch more dangerous attacks. What they have is net and CPU. That's useful to someone.

Maybe there should be some sort of license before you're allowed to expose a web server to the public net. {sigh}


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  • ...when I would have disagreed with you :). Spending the last few years as a syadmin have opened my eyes, however. If I ran an ISP that provided webspace of any kind, I'd have a code review team that would have to approve the code before the users can upload something potentially dangerous. Sounds kinda harsh and big brother like, but I see it as protecting my other users, and my investment in bandwidth & hardware. If you want to throw up your own code and don't care about what happens, get your own
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