Securing My Elephant Brain: Passwords   “There are only two
types of companies, those that have been hacked and those that
will be.”  Those are the words of Robert Mueller, the head of
the FBI, from the keynote address at an international computer
security and cryptography conference, RSA Conference 2012. With
that in mind, the security of My Elephant Brain has been a major
focus of the last few weeks. While the project is still in it’s
infancy it’s important to build a stable, secure foundation.
This is the first in a series of posts about security
considerations developers need to take into account, and how
users can recognize when their security isn’t being taken
seriously.  Customers will be trusting My Elephant Brain with
two sets of content that need to be protected. One is the
content they add in the shape of flash cards to be memorized.
Photos with names and faces have a privacy value that needs to
be protected to the utmost. But it’s the other set of content
they give us, or any web application, that