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A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications

Posted by michael on from the much-needed-little-heeded dept.

some-guy writes "The Open Web Application Security Project has released A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications, Version 1.1 "While this document doesn't provide a silver bullet to cure all the ills, we hope it goes a long way in taking the first step towards helping people understand the inherent problems in web applications and build more secure web applications and Web Services in the future...""

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  1. TOC by bytesmythe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chapter 1 - Fdisking your machine
    Chapter 2 - Installing linux
    Chapter 3 - Updating OpenSSL libraries

    What else do you need? Oh, yeah...

    Chapter 4 - Unplugging your network connection
    (That should lock it down from outside pretty well.)

    Chapter 5 - Removing your harddrive and pounding it with a big ass sledgehammer.
    (Now it's secure from the INSIDE, too.)

    See? Good network security really isn't so hard.

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    bytesmythe
    Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
    -- Scott Meyer
  2. Version 1.2 by Shagg · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Guide to Designing Web Applications That Will Survive a Slashdot DoS Attack.

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    Unix is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are.