CUSEC Part Two: Karan’s Warning
I’ve returned to Waterloo from CUSEC. On Friday, Noah Sugarman and I presented findthehotties.com to the CUSEC democamp. We were a big hit, but unfortunately, we were hacked by three seperate groups within minutes of finishing the presentation. Two of the groups personally contacted me with suggestions on how to improve security; of that I’m grateful. I was surprised when I found out our game was hacked, although, I should have expected it. Firstly, we gave the presentation to a bunch of software engineers, and secondly, my dear friend Karan had warned me that we were doing server validation horribly wrong. He was 100% correct.
Unfortunately, Noah and I could not fix the site because the hotel took away our internet access for going over our bandwidth limit. (Note: Never stay at a Best-Western). Today, we finally got the site working again, this time with marginally better security. To make the site properly secure, we need to do a major overhawl, but that will have to wait because we are both very busy making up school work, preparing for exams, and attending job interviews.
So far, I have five interviews lined up for the coming week. Finally, I left my fridge open while I was at the conference. This is most unfortuate because I’d just bought three bags of fresh milk. Oh well, Murphy’s law, right?