Posts by Sam3000

Worst-case Scenarios? You've got it: Gremlin makes totally trashing your apps even easier

But security...

I look forward to the part where the Gremlin setup gets compromised and hackers DoS all the things using a nice shiny API for convenience...

Not very Suprema: Biometric access biz bares 27 million records and plaintext admin creds

Re: Design Strategy: What if the data becomes public?

Not thick at all - the short answer is "complex maths", a longer answer is here in an academic paper:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://cubs.buffalo.edu/images/pdf/pub/symmetric-hash-functions-for-secure-fingerprint-biometric-systems.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjD4N-0xYTkAhVIRhUIHTFaCaAQFjADegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw00GCvzl7MsmpbO1DKIm7MJ&cshid=1565861732946

Wide of the net: Football Association of Ireland says player, manager data safe after breach

Evidence Vs Reality

"there is no evidence of any of their data being extracted from the server."

is not the same as

"No data was extracted from the server"

The former could simply be the the result of terrible logging and monitoring, even if plenty of data was extracted.

Then again, if no card details have been used fraudulently, that's a good sign.