On 13/09/2011 08:03 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:53:17 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>
>> I still think the main problem is that to allow somebody to send you
>> data, you have to figure out how to prevent anybody *else* sending you
>> data.
>
> No, that's easy.  It's called "authentication and authorisation".

Ah, I see.

So how do you prevent somebody connecting to your server a thousand 
times per second and feeding it duff credentials, thereby preventing any 
legitimate users logging in, and wasting lots of CPU power?

See, security isn't so simple...

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