Re:First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Million...
by tptacek on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:19PM
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Having done a few assessments in the last year where I was forced to downgrade sev:hi findings because nobody is realistically going to guess a 128 bit random number, I have to grudgingly acknowledge that UUID object keys are a meaningful security improvement. Which I hate to admit, because I'm generally of the opinion that "defense in depth" is a design cop-out, and here's a pretty potent counterexample.
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Re:First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Million...
by throwawaymath on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:25PM
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I agree with you. Let me emphasize this explicitly: the real failure here is the utter lack of authn and authz. But it is meaningful that the integer IDs are being used.
Re:First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Million...
by edoceo on Friday May 24, 2019 @08:45PM
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One reason I <3 HN is that complex scenarios like this get described so clearly, succinctly like this.
I couldn't say it better myself when I'm speaking to management that makes these kinds of decisions. Now I can quote throwawaymath verbatim to drive the detailed point home.
Thanks!