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Re: some of the issues of NOT storing images in a secure database..

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php, comp.databases.mysql
Subject Re: some of the issues of NOT storing images in a secure database..
Date 2011-05-17 15:45 +0100
Organization albasani.net
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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-targeted-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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some of the issues of NOT storing images in a secure database.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-17 13:45 +0100
  Re: some of the issues of NOT storing images in a secure database.. Willem Bogaerts <w.bogaerts@kratz.nl> - 2011-05-17 15:50 +0200
    Re: some of the issues of NOT storing images in a secure database.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-17 15:45 +0100
  Re: some of the issues of NOT storing images in a secure database.. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-05-17 10:33 -0400

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