{"id":26006,"date":"2015-02-24T15:17:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26006"},"modified":"2015-02-24T15:17:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:17:45","slug":"experienced-points-how-do-you-know-if-a-web-site-is-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26006","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: How Do You Know If A Web Site Is Secure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/13553-Five-Guidelines-For-Determining-a-Web-Site-s-Security\">a column<\/a> encouraging more user paranoia, like I promised <a href=\"?p=25961\" title=\"Common Security Failings\">last week<\/a>. I&#8217;m not happy with how this turned out. It&#8217;s one of the longest pieces I&#8217;ve done in the history of the column, and I feel like I barely scratched the surface. It was too big a topic to ram into a single column but I didn&#8217;t feel like it was wise to make it two or three parts long. (I didn&#8217;t want to embark on an epic three-part series and then after part 1 realize that nobody cared. I&#8217;d end up with the Too Human of articles.<\/p>\n<p>I should have just replaced the whole column with a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25961#comments\">comments section last week<\/a>. That was a pretty cool discussion. I find the social engineering side of security so much more interesting than the technical side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I did a column encouraging more user paranoia, like I promised last week. I&#8217;m not happy with how this turned out. It&#8217;s one of the longest pieces I&#8217;ve done in the history of the column, and I feel like I barely scratched the surface. It was too big a topic to ram into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}