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Insecure by default. I remember in the previous place I worked we used ASP webforms. One of the major headaches I had to deal with is that by default, microsoft allows all users to view a page. I had to create huge scripts to go through the entire pagetree and check each's one's rights (moving up directories also because of course we also have cascading positive and negative rights), and output the results in the audits we did automagically each week.

One of the major issues was we could never properly secure the main page, because of some fuckery. At the main page we'd redirect to the login if you weren't logged in, but that was basically after you'd already gone through the page access validation checks, so when I tried to secure that page you wouldn't be redirected. I can't remember how, or even if I solved this...



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