http://www.seancolombo.com/2008/05/01/65/ My little corner of the internet. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:32:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.seancolombo.com/2008/05/01/65/comment-page-1/#comment-3957 SeanColombo.com » Pitt talk was fun Sat, 17 May 2008 13:32:26 +0000 http://www.seancolombo.com/?p=65#comment-3957 [...] Pitt talk was fun Posted in Programming, Software Industry, Education, Motive Force by Sean on the May 17th, 2008 The talk I gave this week on SiloSync at Pitt was a fun venue. Their Lunch-and-Learn series is a really cool idea and sounds like it’s getting even more interesting. Next month’s talk is going to be done by a VP from Sun Microsystems. Prior to presenting, I jumped back into the SiloSync code and wrote the beginnings of the importer for Facebook. As a side-note: one of the things that’s fascinating about this project is that I get to see all of the half-implemented security that different sites use. LiveJournal had a secure way of sending passwords, but shockingly stores passwords as plain-text (a big security faux-pas). Similarly, I saw some left-over fields in Facebook’s login form, but it appears that they just punted and used https (a secure web connection using SSL encryption) to just encrypt the whole login. [...] [...] Pitt talk was fun Posted in Programming, Software Industry, Education, Motive Force by Sean on the May 17th, 2008 The talk I gave this week on SiloSync at Pitt was a fun venue. Their Lunch-and-Learn series is a really cool idea and sounds like it’s getting even more interesting. Next month’s talk is going to be done by a VP from Sun Microsystems. Prior to presenting, I jumped back into the SiloSync code and wrote the beginnings of the importer for Facebook. As a side-note: one of the things that’s fascinating about this project is that I get to see all of the half-implemented security that different sites use. LiveJournal had a secure way of sending passwords, but shockingly stores passwords as plain-text (a big security faux-pas). Similarly, I saw some left-over fields in Facebook’s login form, but it appears that they just punted and used https (a secure web connection using SSL encryption) to just encrypt the whole login. [...]

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