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Experiences with Dropbox as iPhoto Library Backup
Background: The renewal on my annual Mozy Backup subscription was due, and I decided that I wanted to consolidate backup solutions. Dropbox had (recently?) upped their Pro plan to 1TB, so there was plenty of room to back up a 100GB iPhoto library. I made the switch on Wednesday of this week, dragging the iPhoto library…
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devise_security_extension undefined method authenticate for nil:NilClass on Rspec Tests for Controller That Skips Authentication
After installing the Devise Security Extension to add password expiration to my Devise models, I started getting the following error on an RSpec test for a controller that does not perform authentication of the user: Failure/Error: get :index NoMethodError: undefined method `authenticate?’ for nil:NilClass After a bit of digging, I found that the helpers.rb in…
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How safe is an MD5 hash of a plain password?
First of all, I hope that you’ve moved beyond MD5 hashes and hashing passwords by themselves, adding salts, etc., but I do recall systems in which an MD5 hash of a password by itself was “good enough”. You can look up some md5 hashes on this md5 cracker page. I found many two word combinations…