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So, I wanted to make a login system with PHP, and basically what it would do would be to have a file for usernames and a file for passwords so when a user tries to log in, it just gets information from both files and matches … Continue reading How smart is storing passwords and usernames in files?
So, we’ve got a fairly standard login page on a web application.
We want to make a slight change so that if a user gets their password wrong, the page reloads (as it currently does) but the username is kept so the user doesn… Continue reading Are there any risks with prepopulating a username from a querystring on a login page?
I have looked all over online as well as this site to try to find out more information regarding the security of this, but haven’t found anything. In my particular case, the product is a website, but I think this question app… Continue reading Is it good or bad practice to allow a user to change their username?
First and foremost, I am sorry for posting anonymously for security reasons. Exposing my identity might mean exposing my vulnerability, which comes from the problem decribed below.
I have accounts in websites A1,A2,A3,…etc… Continue reading I accidentally entered password for a website as a username for another website
My partner has a unique name, and while we can’t truly be certain, we’re almost 100% sure she is the only one in the world with it.
Once upon a time she had a Hotmail account with her name as the username, along the lines of… Continue reading Someone has registered my partner’s recycled email account
Everyday we visit many websites, including our university’s website, maybe Google, Yahoo, etc. But on each of them, we have a unique username, while each person in a country can have a “national code” such that no persons sha… Continue reading Why not use a national ID as username for every website?
I am testing a new WLAN client mode of a device. So that the device can handle preferably every possible case, I have to know which characters and lengths are generally allowed in the SSID, user-name and passphrase.
I’m building a PHP login system that uses a username and password at first to grant the user a token and uses that token to grant the user access to their account.
My original thought was to force the access_token to refresh… Continue reading Password and Login verse very long string (token)
I took a screenshot of a certain finder window to ask a question on apple.stackexchange, and the image includes the name of my home folder, i.e. my user name.
Should I bother to blur that out?
Is there any chance that infor… Continue reading Is it unsecure to let my personal computer user name be known publicly?
I took a screenshot of a certain finder window to ask a question on apple.stackexchange, and the image includes the name of my home folder, i.e. my user name.
Should I bother to blur that out?
Is there any chance that infor… Continue reading Is it unsecure to let my personal computer user name be known publicly?