simon koldyk » Startups http://simonkoldyk.com web entrepreneur - vancouver blogger Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:19:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Posting Exploits http://simonkoldyk.com/posting-exploits/ http://simonkoldyk.com/posting-exploits/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:57:19 +0000 Simon Koldyk http://simonkoldyk.com/?p=26 TechCrunch made a post today (that they got from Hacker News) about a exploit in Tumblr that would allow you to access the administration area of the site simply by logging in and adding /admin/ to the url. You could add posts, change peoples emails and reset their password; easily a few bad people could do a lot of damage and apparently some were affected. While this is a stupid programming mistake by Tumblr their should be quite a bit of security on the administration panels, I want to talk about what TechCrunch did.

They posted it without notifing Tumblr and waiting the hour for them to fix it or deny access to the /admin/ url. I believe in publishing when a company makes a mistake of this magnitude to show people why they should be concerned with security, and showing the specifics so people can learn from this. Publishing this information before a fix is made or before a fix is out (withing a resonable time frame) is crazy.

Just think about if this was your startup and TechCrunch blogged about your startups exploit, it could screw over a lot of your users.

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Its called FoodTube. They are calling themselves the “The Search Engine for Video Recipes”; but, really if I’m going to look on recipes I’m going to Youtube itself or doing a Google search. Also most of the videos are from Youtube itself, so unless this starts doing amazing in Google I don’t see it going anywhere.

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Now your probably wishing you installed iHound. Its a cool little piece of software that you can add to your iPod or some USB digital device that tells you the location of where your device is being used. Give this information to you local police and hopefully get your device back. iHound Software is giving out for free right now for up to three devices so try it out.

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