http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/06/iphone-4-ordering-and-session-switching/ Information security, a little slower...a little deeper Tue, 15 May 2012 11:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/06/iphone-4-ordering-and-session-switching/comment-page-1/#comment-10634 Prefect Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:44:51 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=4215#comment-10634 <p>Excellent point, thank you Christian. I was trying to allude to problems like that, but spelling it out is helpful.</p> Excellent point, thank you Christian. I was trying to allude to problems like that, but spelling it out is helpful.

]]> http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/06/iphone-4-ordering-and-session-switching/comment-page-1/#comment-10633 Christian Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:36:29 +0000 http://praetorianprefect.com/?p=4215#comment-10633 <p>It's probably far simpler than that. The session cookie is probably based on a timestamp which normally doesn't cause problems for them, but with everyone slamming into the site at once it was generating duplicates. Most programming language timestamp functions only go down to hundredths or thousandths of a second.</p> It’s probably far simpler than that. The session cookie is probably based on a timestamp which normally doesn’t cause problems for them, but with everyone slamming into the site at once it was generating duplicates. Most programming language timestamp functions only go down to hundredths or thousandths of a second.

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