Security

When running Expatistan I understand that security is a very important aspect of web applications, and we take security seriously. I take appropriate steps to make your usage of Expatistan.com safe and secure for you and for your data. These include:

  1. Encrypting all sensitive information transmitted between your computers and our computers, in the same fashion that e.g. banks use to protect customer account information.
  2. Following industry standard practices to secure our servers. These include routinely updating the software installed on our servers, physically protecting access to them, restricting access by password and other technological countermeasures, not storing plain-text passwords in the database, etc.
  3. Restricting access to your data to people who absolutely need that access to provide the service to you.

Vulnerability Reporting

As the founder of Expatistan, I can say that I am very grateful for the contributions to software security made by security researchers in our industry. If you believe you have discovered a security vulnerability in Expatistan, please contact me directly at gerardo@expatistan.com with as much information as possible about the security issue, how to exploit it or reproduce it, and any other helpful information.

You may use the following PGP key:

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Thank you for your help

Expatistan appreciates the time and work it took to discover and report security vulnerabilities. The following people helped Expatistan to find, fix, and disclose security vulnerabilities safely:

(an * indicates two or more vulnerabilities have been reported)

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