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Old Aug 2nd, 2005, 1:23 AM   #20
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cerulean
It's not the godsend you think it is Sane. Is no one else seeing the flaw with that? You've got a direct string comparison. Anyone with a decompiler can easily change that test (from == to !=) and there you have it - no need to enter the correct password. Much less effort than trying to brute force the password or whatever. There's just no real point in pursuing this further.
If they have write access there is, of course, no security. I was thinking more from the standpoint of them potentially having read-access but not write access...)

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