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What alternatives are there to the existing Certificate Authority system for SSL?
Whilst the current CA system works very well for a lot of people, it does put a lot of power into individual CAs' hands, and makes a CA hack potentially devastating for customers and business. What alternatives are there to certificate authorities,…
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Are password managers more secure than a slightly different password for each website?
Let's say I use a 5 word password composed of 4 words plus the name of the website I'm accessing. For example for GitHub, it would be something like "correct battery horse staple github".
How is that different to using a password manager with…
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What are the potential risks of leaving a device in public, but locked?
Let's say you're in a public café, or conference, where you trust your device won't be stolen if you go to the bathroom for 5 minutes, but you don't trust it might not be tampered with.
What are the potential security risks I might run into here,…
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Security risks of user generated HTML?
I am creating a website that allows people to upload HTML content.
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