Please don't take my sunshine away
I recently attended a technology conference and one of the sessions was focused on website security. This is something that people are becoming more and more aware of, sometimes painfully so. The presenter in this session was trying to drive home the point that website developers need to be thinking about how to secure their websites from day one. He related a how-not-to experience he had with a close friend. This friend was getting ready for the release of a new website and he called the presenter the night before to see if he had any thoughts on how to make the website as secure as possible. The presenter told him his best option was to not release the website. The friend told him that wasn't an option, so the presenter suggested he change the website code so that when someone tried to log in they would immediately get logged back out. The presenters point was that the night before is the wrong time to start thinking about security, but it got me ...