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Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:14:56 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jasper Janssen writes:
> Yes, it is. Anything on an unsecured webserver is being published.
I don't agree. (I see the point, but I don't think it's that simple.) What
is security -- fundamentally?
A file served from under the URL
http://www.foo.foo/images/blort.jpg
where the /images/ directory is HTTP-password-protected with the username
and password combo of "images"/"foo" is actually far less "secure" IMHO than
a "non-secured" file with an obscure _non-linked-to_ URL, for example
http://www.foo.foo/images/z7jd8x9yri8jz2qtc6jzk2m8vz8.jpg
Security through obscurity may be a weak form of security, but it's still
security (i.e., the intended limitation of viewing). In fact, any file on
any webserver that's not linked to from some normally-navigable public page
on that webserver is a file which I would call "secured" in some way or
another. (Again, maybe security through obscurity, but if a file isn't
linked to, then clearly the intention is for it not to be seen.)
Which level/strength of security to use is dependent on how badly you don't
want the stuff to be seen, IMHO.
--Todd
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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| (...) What about <www.LEGO.com/topsecret> which when I found it last year had pre- release pics of the original SW sets that were coming out. There was a refernce to this URL in a Mania Magazine (which published the URL) but there was no link to (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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| (...) I don't think that's clear at all! It may be simply a matter of poor index design, or laziness. Luckily for my argument :) I have a great example of this already. <URL:(URL) is an intended-to-be-public website. Check out <URL:(URL): you won't (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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| (...) Not necessarily. Does (URL) contain links to all the users /~user directories? In 90% of the cases, in my experience,. not. Same for ISPs. So 90% of the web is not intended to be seen by your logic. Security through obscurity is no security at (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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