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Security with Go
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Security with Go

by John Daniel Leon
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
8h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to prevent fingerprinting of your applications

As demonstrated earlier, there are multiple ways to fingerprint applications at many different levels of the technology stack. The first question you should really ask yourself is, "Do I need to prevent fingerprinting?" In general, trying to prevent fingerprinting is a form of obfuscation. Obfuscation is a bit controversial, but I think everyone does agree that obfuscation is not security in the same way that encoding is not encryption. It may slow down, limit information, or confuse an attacker temporarily, but it does not truly prevent any vulnerability from being exploited. Now, I'm not saying that there is no benefit at all from obfuscation, but it can never be relied on by itself. Obfuscation ...

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ISBN: 9781788627917