User:ThomasMcC

Tom's Thoughts

Don't roll your own. (AKA: The first rule of cryptography.) If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not your computer anymore If a bad guy can alter the operating system on your computer, it's not your computer anymore If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore If you allow a bad guy to upload programs to your website, it's not your website any more A computer is only as secure as the administrator is trustworthy Absolute anonymity isn't practical, in real life or on the Web Nuke it from orbit. It depends