About a year ago, some Facebook Source Code was leaked. In what appears to be a fluke, I just received some more leaked source code when simply going to my profile on Facebook. This is definitely PHP code, it seems to be a bunch of arrays which contain messages. What is weird is the top [...]
It’s real easy telling which sites store your password, and which sites store a one way hash. At any web site, click on the "forgot password" link. If the web site gives you the option to reset your password, then chances are they are only storing a one way hash. If the web site emails [...]
So by now, you already know that Facebook source code was leaked due to a mis configured server. And if you didn’t already know Facebook is written in PHP, a language that is compiled when it’s executed. So there are some questions that come to at least my mind about this situation.
First, what does this [...]
Previously, in Part 1 of How to Make a Password Strength Meter Like Google I went over the basics on how to get a password strength meter up and running on your site. I got a lot of feedback on this article, mostly commenting on needing a better algorithm to determine if a password is [...]
Password strength meters are becoming more and more popular amongst web services. Google uses one when creating a Google account. One can argue how useful these meters really are, but non-the-less they are fairly cool for users. So how does one go about making one of these meters? Well it’s fairly straight forward.
The basic break [...]
