Preserving network segmentation for cloud web app in a user friendly way

Assuming a team maintaining multiple simple cloud web apps with associated secret key stores.
The control plane for the app needs to access secrets, and we don’t want to expose the secret store on the internet, thus we put both resources i… Continue reading Preserving network segmentation for cloud web app in a user friendly way

Is Windows 10 ‘Backup and Restore’ sending my password in plaintext on unencryped link?

[Note: I have a Windows 10 system in an air-gapped network as the only computer on the network where it is the acting "server", as part of an RMF-compliant, DAAPM (link to PDF on dcsa.mil) defined "Multi User Standalone
(MUS… Continue reading Is Windows 10 ‘Backup and Restore’ sending my password in plaintext on unencryped link?

Is it possible to send data from an open-source program but make it impossible for a user with source code to do the same?

If I want to store a global scoreboard for a game running locally on the user’s computer and I want to make sure that all the requests coming to the server are really generated by the game and not spoofed by the users, is there anything th… Continue reading Is it possible to send data from an open-source program but make it impossible for a user with source code to do the same?