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Archive for July, 2011
Android is Insecure By Design
0Android’s security situation is pretty dire. Considering how well Google architected Chrome, I know they understand how to create a secure system. Perhaps Google don’t care about security on Android?
If a user needs to worry about downloading malware on Android Market, which has apps that leak or maliciously steal personal data, and others that send spam SMS messages, among other nasty things, something has gone terribly wrong.
Asking users to review a complex and obtuse permissions list is not even close to the answer. Time and time again, we’ve seen that this sort of thing can’t be left to the users by default. They will always click yes.
Google has not learned this lesson, obviously, and as such, I expect the Android platform will turn into the Windows of old, where nearly every smartphone is jam-packed with Spy/Malware.
Hopefully I’m wrong and Google will wake up.
phpBB3 and add user mod
01 year ago
by Greg
in Admin Geekery
If you use the add user mod with phpBB3 with new user registration disabled you may find it is not sending passwords in the user welcome email. To fix this, you’ll need to edit the language template for the user welcome email to include the password token.
You can find the tempate in language/en/emails. WIth user registration disabled, the one you want is user_welcome.txt. Use _inactive.txt or admin_welcome_inactive.txt as appropriate if you use those registration modes.
All you need to do is add “Password: {PASSWORD}” somewhere (the token is the important bit) and you’ll be set. You might need to clear your board’s cache by clicking the “clear cache” button on the main admin window.
I hope this helps you if you find yourself in the same puzzling predicament.