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Comment: Re:Car analogy (Score 1) 409

by Jave1in (#35155764) Attached to: Are You Sure SHA-1+Salt Is Enough For Passwords?
No its not. Its like warning for the danger that the thief driving away with your brand new car now has the keys to all your friends cars. If you're hashing user passwords, its likely those users use the same passwords elsewhere. And if your database happens to have their emails (like most do), an attacker has a great place to start trying those passwords.

Comment: Where is your datacenter? (Score 5, Insightful) 181

by Jave1in (#32059308) Attached to: Hot Aisle Or Cold Aisle For Containment?
The best solution is going to based on the average ambient temperature of your location. If you're in a hot environment, why contain the cold if you need additional A/C in the datacenter for employees? Reduce costs by using the same equipment to cool both. If you're in a cold region, then let the heat also warm the datacenter. If you're in an ideal temperature environment, then you don't have much to worry about beside good air flow.

Comment: Re:SSH as root (Score 1) 391

by Jave1in (#29649015) Attached to: Sloppy Linux Admins Enable Slow Brute-Force Attacks
If the server has multiple admins, then running a shell as root would make accountability for changes on that server much more difficult to surmise than using su or sudo which logs privilege escalation. On your own private server, the only real benefit is to protect your system from yourself when you don't particularly need root access.

Comment: Over the phone verification (Score 1) 303

by Jave1in (#28016845) Attached to: Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed
I had a registrar confirm my identity by asking me to answer the secret question I setup. The question I made up was was "What is the fucking point of this security question bullshit?" Unfortunately I couldn't answer the question because I was laughing so hard hearing him read it with a thick Indian accent.

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