I've got a page which retrieves character information from a remote service and then displays the information in a table which is inside an UpdatePanel. The table refreshes perfectly fine if all I do is add tablerows, tablecells, and text to the table. However, if I try to add images, either vi...
@allquixotic I've been around a little bit. Had a question I needed to ask... CEO borrowed the laptop I use and I never got it back. >_> Typing on a mini iPad sucks.
Pfft last time I loaned him a machine he left all his passwords saved and didn't delete his financial spreadsheet off the desktop when he gave it back...
Could have gone through his email if I so desired. That's one thing I really like about that place. Everyone entirely trusts us (IT) with their data.
even where I work, my boss asked me to write a script that could only be tested with a manager's credentials (password)
i did as best i could but then pouted "I can't test it!" so what does he do? he gets an "encryption" (in air quotes) routine from a colleague, pastes it into the file, types his password in a prompt, copies an obfuscated version of the password into a string in the code, and gives it to me
the decryption routine is right there in the file because the code uses it to decrypt the password to enter it
I didn't try explaining to him that it's not encryption if a polynomial-time algorithm can produce the plain text from the cipher text
@Bob a one-way hash wouldn't work, because I needed to use his plaintext password to authenticate into a downstream system over which we had no control
@Bob the whole reason he got me involved is to try and work around limitations in software produced by other components of our company who are unwilling to help us in any way, so a temp password would entail getting a temp account from them
you'd have to be an absolute idiot not to add a line to the bottom of the vbscript (assuming physical access to the box / the file) doing MsgBox decrypt(sPassword)
Hell, my CEO started to give me his password before I cut him off and told him I did not want to know it. Most my users do that, even ones higher up than me. Makes me uncomfortable. =S
a password is even more dangerous and harder to control than a physical key
if someone gives you a physical key, chances are you don't have the skills or time or tools to duplicate it... you can borrow it, use it for whatever, and give it back, no harm done, and your access is automatically revoked
if someone gives you their password, you can memorize it regardless of what physical materials (aside from your brain) that you destroy
and until they change it, you're in, and the account is compromised
a lot of people have figured out ridiculously easy ways of gaming the complicated password changing systems, too, where they hardly change their password at all but it passes the sniff test of the filter that tries to prevent you from using a "too similar password"
Why is a physical key safer though? Is it just because there are fewer locksmiths than geeks? Could we ever mimic the security of physical locks digitally, to the point where we can "loan" our keys out like that?
@Tanner I don't know, but if we start thinking about convenience of sharing an account temporarily, it probably opens up whole other security issues in the process
meta dosen't always have questions with definitive answers. Its a good way to make sure you have something to point out when a policy is set, and you need to mention it
I've noticed a good chunk of my edit approval review audits are by the same user (who I will not name ;p), with a .. suspicious amount of rep (999/1024). I realize that review audits are meant to catch roboapprovals, but at this point I'm like "Oh, its him again" and know its a review audit.
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Some image hosting sites like Imgur and min.us support image uploading via drag-and-drop in Chrome and Firefox. It would be nice if you could upload an image and add it to your post by dropping it on the edit page.
@JourneymanGeek Some things on the specs pages of motherboards or other common components, for example. Like the north bridge and south bridge and the like.
I hear people discuss them a little when talking about builds and stuff and I always glaze over when they do.
basically decide if you want AMD or Intel, pick a chipset (with intel, there's really only 3 major families) and pick a model (reviews are useful here)
I've got a page which retrieves character information from a remote service and then displays the information in a table which is inside an UpdatePanel. The table refreshes perfectly fine if all I do is add tablerows, tablecells, and text to the table. However, if I try to add images, either vi...
Some image hosting sites like Imgur and min.us support image uploading via drag-and-drop in Chrome and Firefox. It would be nice if you could upload an image and add it to your post by dropping it on the edit page.
