Re: Keeping "Secrets" in PHP Files

From: Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:37:56 +0000
Subject: Re: Keeping "Secrets" in PHP Files
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On Friday, June 28, 2002, at 10:11 AM, Jason Wong wrote:
2) Make sure your 'secret' files are named extremely obscurely as to be 'unguessable'.
It's helpful, but is a kind of "security through obscurity" and won't stop a dedicated cracker. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/security-through- obscurity.html ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com

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