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Tag: Security

Posted on 23 April 201216 July 2015

Simple way to generate a random password in PHP

When creating web apps, there’s often a need to generate a random password for your users. There are a number of ways to do this, but in needing to do this recently I came up with this very simple function that will generate a password (or other random string) of whatever length you wish.

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Posted on 6 March 2012

How to track if companies are selling your email address

I recently learned a handy little trick for tracking what companies do with your email address when you sign up for their newsletters, or enter a competition, or they find some other way to sucker you in to giving them your personal information. The only requirement for being able to do this is to have your own domain.

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