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Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:40:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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.)
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 this page from anywhere on any of the LEGO main screens,
including the club screen, if memory server??
According to Brad I could notpost to LUGNET saying, "check this out!"
Ben Gatrelle
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| (...) There were, however, images on the SW portion of lego.com which were being served from that webserver (IIRC, not www.lego.com, though). A simple view source revealed thew existece of that webserver. (...) Yeah. I wonder when I'm gonna get an (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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| (...) 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 (URL) the /images/ directory is HTTP-password-protected with the username and password combo of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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