nmadden

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Author API Security in Action - https://www.manning.com/books/api-security-in-action

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> Also, it's quietly, in the email space, that we're seeing real innovation […]

Can you elaborate on this innovation in the email space around PKI?

Comment · 12 days ago
Not if you program to the interface. This kind of pattern matching is syntactic sugar for `instanceof` checks and down-casts. That’s fine within a module boundary (using “module” in a loose sense), but across module boundaries I think programming to an interface should still be the preferred solution.
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Sort of, but not really. OAuth isn’t RBAC and the Dropbox chooser isn’t FGA in the sense of that article. My book (linked from my profile) covers the distinctions in more detail in chapters 7, 8 and 9.
Comment · 1 month ago
I used to use the example of Dropbox’s chooser API to illustrate this: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/chooser

If you use this API (via a simple widget library) then the user simply picks a file in their dropbox and the app gets access to that one file. Vs OAuth where you grant the app broad access to the whole dropbox (or maybe some sub-folder).

Comment · 5 months ago
> The pads are split into three pieces that are XORed to create the actual pad to reduce risk of compromise.

Thus creating a two-time pad, which is completely insecure…

Comment · 6 months ago
Re: cheap - Anthropic’s write-up said it cost $20,000 of runs to find that bug (and a few others). So not that cheap compared to other tools - more similar in cost to human review/pentest, but probably more exhaustive.

> This was the most critical vulnerability we discovered in OpenBSD with Mythos Preview after a thousand runs through our scaffold. Across a thousand runs through our scaffold, the total cost was under $20,000 and found several dozen more findings.

They don’t talk about the other findings, so I’m guessing they are minor.

Comment · 11 months ago
> Crashing is not an outage.

Are you in the right thread?

Comment · 11 months ago
MBP = Macbook Pro AW = Apple Watch? What is APP?
Comment · 11 months ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted for recommending a classic textbook!
Comment · 11 months ago

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