[thelist] Security Issue

Nan Smith nan at heritageconcord.org
Wed Aug 14 08:01:00 CDT 2002


Hi,
A guy in my neighborhood has put together a directory of everyone in the
neighborhood, names, addresses, phones, kids, email addresses, etc, etc.
Of course, he did not hear from everyone, and there will be constant
changes as people move in and out, so  the directory he gave to all of us
already needed to be updated.
I offered to upload the db and put all the information on one of my
websites, and make it so neighbors can go in and see the info and change
their own profiles. This way we save the printing and mailing costs, and
it is always up to date, as long as people update it when it changes. Of
course I would protect the pages, either with htaccess files or coding in
a username and password to view the pages. We actually went ahead and
registered a domain name for this, so it can be its own website, or can
point to a folder in one of my existing sites. We would not add any
metatags or do anything to be found by search engines. But there are
people who are worried about putting their info on the web. I think this
issue has been discussed on the list, I think we were talking about
putting photos of kids out there. Does putting this on the web put people
at risk? I assume someone could hack into our information, but who would
even know it was there with all of the thousands of websites out there?
And if it is safe enough (we would leave out the kids names) would it be
better to protect it with htaccess files or coding in an if statement:
if (($username=="name") and $password=="password")) { show stuff.
These pages would not be found by search engines would they?
TIA
Nan





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