Ruby on Rails

On Jul 29, 10:49 am, 7stud -- <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> The user goes on vacation for two weeks.  While the user is on vacation,
> the malicious user gains access to the user's computer and inspects the
> cookies on the user's computer,
> and copies the token plus timestamp.  The malicious user goes to his
> computer, creates a cookie with the copied token, and logs into the app.
> Won't the malicious user have free access to the user's account?

Sure, but at this point the user is pretty throughly pwned anyways -
there's no system that will protect the login here, short of ditching
the whole "persistent login" part and requiring the user to re-
autheticate on each visit.

--Matt Jones

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