Even the audiophile music sharing site What.CD seems to have succumbed to the "truthiness trumps engineering sense" malaise.
'The Register: Audiophile torrent site What.CD fully pwnable thanks to wrecked RNG' (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/02/what_cd_security_flaw/http://) They are using mt_rand straight into its password reset which is a textbook example of how not to use it, the researcher told The Register at the WAHckon security conference in Perth, Saturday. I reported it a year ago, and they acknowledged it but said don't worry about it. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105544
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