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Secure Development for Mobile Apps
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Secure Development for Mobile Apps

by J. D. Glaser
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
472 pages
10h 44m
English
Auerbach Publications
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tWItter AutHentIcAtIon
And SSl curl
e purpose of this chapter is to introduce code that safely and securely retrieves and
displays data from the Twitter service. ere are two aspects to this process. One is the
more obvious treatment of untrusted data, even when it comes from a trusted source.
e second is to securely call the service. is is a commonly forgotten procedure, and
its omission is called a security downgrade. is idea was addressed in AJAX Security
(Hoffman and Sullivan 2007). is idea recognizes the fact that while a user may
securely login, subsequent data requests are fetched insecurely using either clear text
calls or non-verified encrypted calls, which compromises security, trust, and data integ-
rity. A user has the reasonable ...
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ISBN: 9781482209037