ben87r Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 If anyone did get upset about an outage and no access that could only be taken as a compliment couldn't it?
Admin Posted March 20, 2017 Author Posted March 20, 2017 A Note about site passwords... As mentioned before, here on Recreational Flying we use 1 way encryption of passwords which means that from your password, a series of processes are applied to the password that completely changes it which is what is stored in the database. It is one way in so far as if you got the database version of your password, there is no way to come back to your actual password without billions of different calculations. So from a password, the database stores the say 8 character password like this: Even if a hacker got this they wouldn't be able to go backwards to find out what the password is. As a quick and dirty example, here is code that I created some 20 years ago before password protection was as serious as it is today and even before 128 bit encryption was discovered. Function UnlockCode() 'This function is to get the unlock code Dim n As Integer Dim countn As Integer Dim str As String Dim letter As String Dim lockn As String n = 1 str = "a" 'ctlName' '--------------------------------------------- If str = "" Then Exit Function 'WARNING NO STRING ENTRY' '--------------------------------------------- If Len(str) countn = Len(str) lockn = 21659 Do Until n = countn + 1 letter = Mid(str, n, 1) lockn = Val(lockn) * (CLng(Asc(letter)) * DatePart("m", Date)) If Len(lockn) > 12 Then lockn = Right(Fix(lockn * 0.21659), 12) lockn = Val(lockn) * (CLng(Asc(letter)) * (DatePart("yyyy", Date) * 0.0001)) If Len(lockn) > 12 Then lockn = Right(Fix(lockn * 0.12198), 12) n = n + 1 Loop End Function This was my first attempt at 1 way encryption, as I said 20 years ago. It takes a string of characters, adds characters if it is less than 8 characters long, converts it to numbers, multiplies it by a specific date, drops off the end any numbers past 12 characters, does this again and again and again for the number of characters in input dropping off the numbers past 12 characters and loops. Basically as you can see, and the reason for this, is the numbers it drops off the end are gone for good, there is no coming back from that so coming back from the end result to work out the input (i.e. a password) is basically impossible, even if you had the above code. The reason for posting this is to ensure all users that your passwords are protected through 1 way encryption 1
PA. Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 Thank you Ian for going to such lengths to protect our passwords. I would hate if anyone found out my password was ladyboy69 10
JEM Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 I have had a Recreational Flying shortcut on my windows 8 desktop which I have used routinely for ages but yesterday saw that the shortcut description had just changed from "Rec Flying" to "NZ Vector." I did not use it but deleted the shortcut and organised a new Rec Flying one which works as intended.
Admin Posted March 20, 2017 Author Posted March 20, 2017 I have had a Recreational Flying shortcut on my windows 8 desktop which I have used routinely for ages but yesterday saw that the shortcut description had just changed from "Rec Flying" to "NZ Vector." I did not use it but deleted the shortcut and organised a new Rec Flying one which works as intended. What do you mean by the description...The name under the icon or the url in the link which is also shown if you hover your mouse over the shortcut icon?
JEM Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 What do you mean by the description...The name under the icon or the url in the link which is also shown if you hover your mouse over the shortcut icon? The name I put under the icon. Cheers John
Admin Posted March 20, 2017 Author Posted March 20, 2017 Then that is pure text from your own input and not auto generated
Fishla Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 Didn't have to login again so the credentials in the cookies are still valid after your refresh? How ever you've got that configured? Make sure there isn't another admin account still logged in!
bexrbetter Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 Thank you Ian for going to such lengths to protect our passwords. I would hate if anyone found out my password was ladyboy69 Well there's a coincidence ... 1 1
Guernsey Posted March 20, 2017 Posted March 20, 2017 Thank you Ian for going to such lengths to protect our passwords. I would hate if anyone found out my password was ladyboy69 Does that mean you are an 'Invert' ? Alan. 1
MikeBravoYanky Posted March 28, 2017 Posted March 28, 2017 Thank you Ian and all for support and quality information.. 1
SGIAN DUBH Posted March 28, 2017 Posted March 28, 2017 Just looked at Whats Up Australia (.com.au) and being a Nosey Pommie I tried to log in with my Log On details from here. Absolutely no chance of me getting logged on, as I am guessing I am 1 of the 3 illegal immigrants from the UK I will just accept you don't want the poms in your Ranting Pages ho hum, I will just wait for the UK Version ;-)
Admin Posted March 28, 2017 Author Posted March 28, 2017 Only those users that had posted in one of the threads that I migrated across to What Up Australia were automatically registered. This was to keep the posts with registered users without having thousands of users from here that may not use the new site. So if you had not posted in one of the migrated threads then just simply register as a new user on Whats Up Australia
Bernie Posted March 29, 2017 Posted March 29, 2017 Not impressed with braking RF up into two sections Ian . Just my thoughts. Bernie . 1
Admin Posted March 29, 2017 Author Posted March 29, 2017 Nothing has changed because Recreational Flying is still about recreational flying 1
old man emu Posted March 29, 2017 Posted March 29, 2017 And all the nut cases have fled to the other site
red750 Posted March 30, 2017 Posted March 30, 2017 And all the nut cases have fled to the other site I resemble that remark! 1
SDQDI Posted March 30, 2017 Posted March 30, 2017 When I agreed with you red it was because I also resemble that, not because I agreed that you resembled it:wave:
nomadpete Posted March 30, 2017 Posted March 30, 2017 Sad but true.......... We love flying We love Aircraft But there are large slices of our time where we cannot indulge in matters aviation, for some reason. Then we vent our frustrations by stirring the crup out of each other About those eternally valuable topics such as religion, sex and politics (and maybe our car/footy preferences) My point is, sadly, we have more time for BS than aviation
old man emu Posted March 30, 2017 Posted March 30, 2017 Actually, Ian has been hiding the truth from us. He got a BOGOF deal from his ISP, so he decided to buzz the nutcases off onto a site he has to pay for, and is keeping the recreational flyers on the freeby which has the advertising. Increases his profits.
Admin Posted March 30, 2017 Author Posted March 30, 2017 You will notice that there is no costs here, Classifieds are free, everything is free, and there is only one paid advert that is currently bringing in $50 a month...Note, JUST the hosting cost is $250 a month. There are other hosting costs, software costs, license costs and much more...oh, and my time Whats Up Australia is also free except that I have included a $10 a month fee for Classifieds that wish to be featured across the top of the Classifieds section (if I can get the darn fee thing working)
nomadpete Posted March 30, 2017 Posted March 30, 2017 There's still one or two nutcases that haven't yet been lured to the New website.......... Now what can I say that they couldn't resist falling for?
Admin Posted March 30, 2017 Author Posted March 30, 2017 I am madly working on the Sports Tipping Feature on Whats Up Australia where you can have weekly tipping on the outcomes of each round in the AFL, NRL and Soccer (???). May even have a price at the end of the season to the user that has got the most correct. So much data needed to set it up though
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