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1mo ago
no offense taken. i shouldnt have included password resets in my def. it muddied the conversation. covert is part of a def, at least sometimes, but i think its still acurate to drop it. consider a machine with two copies of ssh running, one
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1mo ago
Password resets aren't "backdoors" unless they contain a flaw the defeats any security protections. It's not just that the backdoor is less secure than the front, the backdoor has no security or is so easily defeated the
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1mo ago
I'm probably mistaken, but I've always referred to password resets as backdoors. Is there another term they could be classfied as?
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1mo ago
backdoor means a secondary access point that defeats the security features of the primary. In the door analogy, the home owner spends a ton on a lock and camera for the front door but doesn't even have a deadbolt on the back.
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2y ago
A couple inches? NOAA was forcasting record flooding days before the storm. Local news in the Triangle were showing pictures from the 1916 Asheville flood and saying this storm was going to be worse. There were mandatory evacuation orders a