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  1. tchen

    Related to Encryption

    Nothing personal, but your workstation is not a valid place to store the key. The best practice to limit scope is to use a tokenization service, either as a PaaS like Stripe or internally. With it, you have ACL level control so you can provide access to say multiple people in accounting...
  2. tchen

    Related to Encryption

    Passing the secret key on the querystring is forbidden. It's cached in so many places along the way it's not even funny. In any case, best practice for the key vault was suppose to be on a system that was different than the encrypted datastore, and with far less network access. Whmcs just...
  3. tchen

    minimal php framework to create api

    If you're going to future-proof it to that extent, then just cave in and use Play, go, or any other nodejs framework. Because at the end of the day, the PHP routers are thread blocked when doing anything meaningful with external systems. The first 'oh crap this cannot be done' is going to be...
  4. tchen

    The difference with ubuntu and debian?

    If you're just doing web stuff, deb isn't that bad if you trust the dotdeb repositories. It makes the whole glacial release update schedule a moot point.
  5. tchen

    Revolutionising the game industry

    I want to use your multiplayer community website/app/service in offline mode. Nay, I DEMAND it!
  6. tchen

    The truth about Mao and BuyVM

    Well, the bar for proof HAD been lowered of late at LE and here.  It's not surprising if he decides to carry on the fine tradition ;)
  7. tchen

    What tools are available to monitor for abuse?

    What's a good one for network monitoring? IP collisions and rogue dhcps?
  8. tchen

    Big RAM VPS - who actually uses them and for what?

    I'm running a small logstash setup on one of the 3GB RAM series.  There's a Redis on the front to queue incoming syslog messages, with the regex'ing done by another logstash (yes, running two) - dumping it all into elasticsearch.  I haven't heard a peep from the provider so I assume it's not...
  9. tchen

    DO not scrubbing disks?

    I'd be wary of any random 'cloud' provider. AWS went through a lot of teething pain themselves while they were getting their security compliance requirements done (PCI and gov).  It's amazing how much crap goes into regulatory compliance.  For the not so small list SOC 1/SSAE 16/ISAE 3402...
  10. tchen

    DO not scrubbing disks?

    Their rationale for turning it to default-off. https://digitalocean.com/blog_posts/transparency-regarding-data-security
  11. tchen

    The truth about Mao and BuyVM

    TL;DR seems to be that everyone's been telling the truth at least according to their experiences - its the editorializing that's getting out of hand.  Sure, Mao's been a dick to Fran.  Aldryic's being a dick to Sal, Fran can't back down since he's called out by name.  Sal's playing the...
  12. tchen

    suggestion to merge all cc threats

    Second the sub-forum.  Then I can sink it on my New Content list.
  13. tchen

    WTF PHP?

    Half my brain is dedicated to memory structures, virtual tables (C++), interpreter/compiler expansions (especially Scala, and PHP magic methods), and garbage collectors.  So I can tell you with certainty, ALL languages have these types of deep knowledge issues.
  14. tchen

    How to Solve DDoS - SolveDDOS.com

    Slow news day.
  15. tchen

    WTF PHP?

    Member calls and variables are on two separate lookup tables. ( ) automatically invokes a lookup in the method list, which doesn't have your closure since that has been assigned as a value. If you want to invoke on a member variable, then you need to call __invoke on the closure member...
  16. tchen

    Bring out your crystal ball: Some IPv6 Questions

    No one wants to roll out a IPv6 only site as that'd be suicide from a business standpoint.  The network is the slow point of adoption here, and given that AT&T, Akamai, Amazon, and T-mobile sucked up a whole bunch in the last year, it's still going to be a while.  I don't think there's anything...
  17. tchen

    Merry Christmas Ya'll

    Happy holidays everyone.
  18. tchen

    Study finds that Bitcoin does not behave like a currency...

    A Stable International Monetary System Emerges: Inflation Targeting is Bretton Woods, Reversed NBER Working Paper No. 12711  Rose, Andrew K. "These countries place few restrictions on capital mobility and allow their exchange rates to float.... This system was not planned and does not rely on...
  19. tchen

    Study finds that Bitcoin does not behave like a currency...

    Currency in economic papers tend to refer to 'modern' currency designs which differs from commodity currencies on which bitcoin was designed. As domainbop pointed out, tulips were a viable alternative of wealth for a short period of time, marking it as a proto currency. Frankly, any medium of...
  20. tchen

    Web design - need opinions

    Alignment and padding is extremely off.  Also the Company typeface clashes with the rest of the typefaces used.
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