Hacking Web Services

siduri writes "Udi Manber, chief scientist at Yahoo!, gave a great talk on the kinds of hacks that Yahoo sees at the IEEE's Symposium on Security and Privacy. I wrote an overview of his talk for Dr. Dobb's Journal. While some of the message is well-known stuff (like that people will spend a lot of time hacking the most trivial things), the details of what Yahoo has to deal with are really pretty interesting."

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My yahoo account is great!

[teamhasnoi]

No spam, viruses, exploits, or anything. It's nice to hear about the stuff going on in the background to make it this way. I will happily continue to use Yahoo, while all the unwashed masses continue to use hotmail. They can be the front line of unfortunates, and save me from the scipt kiddies. (That and my Mac :)

Ph.D. level cleverness?

[ergo98]

I find this comment a little bit insulting as it implies a "higher than thou" intelligence or cleverness about those holding or pursuing a Ph.D. I'd love to see some stats on the intelligence and/or problem solving ability of Ph.D.s, and intuition tells me that it will fall within the norm of intelligence workers, with at best a slightly higher dedication.

Re:Ah, the Irony!

[poopkilla]

Hey FUCKWAD! You obviously don't grasp the meaning of the word "stealing," but I'll bet you know the meaning of anal penetration with heated sections of angle-iron.
For your edification, the definition of "steal" is as follows: [quoted from m-w.com by cut-and-paste]
1 : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as an habitual or regular practice
2 : to come or go secretly, unobtrusively, gradually, or unexpectedly
3 : to steal or attempt to steal a basetransitive senses

1 a : to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully
b : to take away by force or unjust means [they've stolen our liberty]
c : to take surreptitiously or without permission [steal a kiss]
d : to appropriate to oneself or beyond one's proper share : make oneself the focus of [steal the show]

Udi Manber is an idiot and intellectual 'property' isn't property per se but rather a legal construct. By buying into this moron's definition of theft and then broadcasting it, you do both yourself and the community a dis-service. Now go home and put a bag on your sister's head so I can shag the shit outta her!