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Reduces DB Size Drastically

5 days ago 114.8K views 0 shares

Ah, the "security through obscurity" approach taken to its logical conclusion. Storing passwords in plaintext - because nothing says "enterprise-grade security" like keeping all your users' credentials in a format readable by the intern who accidentally got database access. Sure, it reduces DB size by skipping that pesky hashing algorithm. Your database might be smaller, but so will your company after the inevitable breach. The cybersecurity equivalent of leaving your house key under the doormat because "no burglar would look there."

Best I Can Do Is A Reset

Security Programming Databases Backend

14 days ago 145.0K views 0 shares

The eternal dance of users forgetting passwords and sysadmins shrugging helplessly! Proper password storage means even admins can't see your actual password - they can only nuke it back to factory settings. That's not incompetence; that's security by design . Your password should be a one-way hash buried so deep that even the database admin is just staring at a cryptographic salad. If your IT person CAN tell you your password, update your resume immediately because that company's security is more vulnerable than PHP without input sanitization.

When Your Private Key Is Public

Security Networking Programming

22 days ago 173.9K views 0 shares

When your private key is just a Lady Gaga tweet from 2012. Somewhere a security engineer is having a heart attack right now. Nothing says "military-grade encryption" like random characters from a pop star's keyboard smash that's been publicly available for over a decade. Next up in cybersecurity innovations: using your cat's walking pattern across your keyboard as your password hash.

What Kind Of User Are You?

Linux Networking Security Vim Bash

1 month ago 245.1K views 0 shares

The tech evolution iceberg is the perfect personality test for developers. Started with Windows and macOS? Basic normie. Running Linux/Windows dual boot with Firefox? Congrats, you've achieved tech bro status. But the real fun starts when you hit the nerd level with Vim and full disk encryption. The basement dwellers are running custom kernels and using IRC like it's still 2005. "What messaging app do you use?" "Oh, just /bin/dash, you wouldn't understand." Then there's the glowie tier with encrypted GRUB and air-gapped machines. These folks compile their own compilers because they don't trust the ones that compiled the compilers. And finally, the ascended beings who've transcended physical hardware entirely. They probably run consciousness.sh directly on the universe's quantum fabric. The rest of us are just trying to remember our WiFi password.

Digital Natural Selection

Security Networking Databases

2 months ago 251.4K views 1 shares

DARLING, LISTEN UP! If you're leaving your precious data NAKED and EXPOSED in some public database while actively feuding with known cyber-attackers, you're not getting hacked – you're basically BEGGING for it! 💅 It's the digital equivalent of leaving your diary open on a cafeteria table after writing mean things about the school bully. That's not social engineering – that's NATURAL SELECTION working its ruthless magic in the digital ecosystem! The hackers aren't even trying at that point; they're just participating in nature's grand plan to eliminate the digitally unfit!

The Escalating Scale Of Developer Mistakes

Security Programming Debugging Databases Backend

2 months ago 165.3K views 0 shares

The Escalating Scale Of Developer Mistakes

Regular coding mistakes: "Oops, I forgot a semicolon." Enterprise coding mistakes: "So I accidentally stored everyone's unencrypted photos with location data in a public Firebase bucket and now there's a map of all users circulating online." This is why we can't have nice things in tech. Some junior dev probably skipped the security training to finish that "urgent feature" and now lawyers are measuring their future yachts. The difference between "ship fast" and "shipwreck" is just a few lines of code and a complete disregard for basic security practices.

No Salt, Just Pure Security Theater

Security Programming Databases

2 months ago 226.7K views 1 shares

OMG THE IRONY IS KILLING ME! 💀 They're all "security is our highest priority" and then IMMEDIATELY expose that Derek and Hakan use the EXACT SAME PASSWORD! Like, honey, you had ONE job - making passwords unique - and you've failed so spectacularly that your error message is literally doxxing other users! This isn't just shooting yourself in the foot, it's nuking your entire security philosophy from orbit! The password isn't even salted - it's SEASONED with a sprinkle of complete incompetence!

Stop People Stealing Website Images: The Escalating Madness

Webdev Security Javascript Programming Frontend

2 months ago 184.0K views 0 shares

Stop People Stealing Website Images: The Escalating Madness

The evolution of image protection from amateur hour to galaxy brain: First stage: "Let's disable right-click!" - the digital equivalent of putting a 'Do Not Touch' sign on a cookie jar. Cute. Second stage: "I'll detect dev tools!" Because surely no one would ever use a second device to take a photo of their screen. Revolutionary thinking there. Third stage: The convoluted PNG-video-DRM-EME pipeline. Six meetings, three sprints, and a product manager's career highlight to implement. Final stage: The ultimate overkill - capturing user clicks to dynamically regenerate encrypted frames. Because nothing says "reasonable solution" like burning a server farm to protect your stock photos. Meanwhile, users just press Print Screen and move on with their lives.

Security Achieved... By Broadcasting The Secret Code

Security Programming Testing

3 months ago 266.1K views 0 shares

Security Achieved... By Broadcasting The Secret Code

When your "secure" one-factor authentication system literally displays the verification code in the same message asking for it. Nothing says "Fort Knox of cybersecurity" like putting the answer key right above the test! The person who implemented this probably also uses "password123" and thinks incognito mode is military-grade encryption. Security teams worldwide just collectively facepalmed so hard they broke their mechanical keyboards.

Me When I Find Out I Can Use Ssh To Sign My Git Commits

Linux AI Python Java Databases

3 months ago 210.7K views 0 shares

Me When I Find Out I Can Use Ssh To Sign My Git Commits

If Unsure Fling Mouse Across Room

Frontend

3 months ago 170.9K views 1 shares

Digital Fort Knox vs. Rusty Gate Security