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Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 18 Dec 1999 01:27:57 GMT
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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:14:56 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com>
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> A file served from under the URL
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> http://www.foo.foo/images/blort.jpg
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> 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
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> http://www.foo.foo/images/z7jd8x9yri8jz2qtc6jzk2m8vz8.jpg
To a cracker, maybe. To the average person? No.
> 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.)
Not necessarily. Does http://www.whatever.edu/ 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 all. Obscurity does not
exist.
Making the UID 0 account "thresh"/password "qwerty" doesn't constitute
security either.
Jasper
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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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