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 >might be secure as long as attackers cannot, say:
You forgot UFOs.
Anyway, again, thanks to everyone for the advice, this is good reading. 
Incidentally, I don't know to much about security. I know about rate 
limiting and dos attacks, as well as some others, but I think there's a 
lot more that I don't know--can someone kind of aim me in the right 
direction for some of this? I want to be able to take techniques, break 
my server and then fix it so that can't be done before I head to public 
with this.