Thank you for a faceted browser API.
When Netscape introduced livescript in 1995, who would
have thought it would have one day be employed for
opportunistic end-to-end encryption and similar jobs.
I would kindly ask you to mention in the opening words
that such an API can only be used in an
I know that USIP has just started a PeaceTech initiative that provides
tech-related foreign aid for peacebuilding. You can look up their PeaceTech
camps in Iraq (and soon in other locations). I believe the initiative has
come out of the Science, Technology and Peacebuilding innovation centre at
Hi all,
I'm sure many of you have seen the recent alleged google
adsense leaks from the discussions about whether this is a hoax.
The first post to pastebin was on 29 April 2014, and the second (less
well-known) post was the following day on the 30 April 2014.
Post 1: I am writing this to
There's a simpler explanation: a disgruntled AdSense publisher got upset
with something Google may have done and then tried to exact revenge with
this.
It's easy to imagine click-bombing to be a real thing and click-bombing
trolls can easily generate resentment among users, one of whom could be
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 07:24:39PM -0700, Tony Arcieri wrote:
If you really want secure updates, depending on your threat model doing it
correctly is a very difficult problem.
First, thanks for the pointer to the web site/paper/etc.: that's going to
make for some interesting reading later
Apologies for crossposting, please distribute as appropriate:
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Ryan Sleevi wrote:
Certificate pinning is one such way to mitigate this threat.
This is true. But
There need to be more options for users/allies to solidify a
connection to a website other than relying on the webmaster to get their
cert pinned (which happens almost never). Yes,
A quick skim shows criticism of the 'leaks' from both Google *and*
publishers. We can take this as a good sign that we should stow the
tin-foil hat for the time being. (At the very least until Greenwald's
next book.)
regards
Cody Tarrant
On Tue, May 20, 2014, at 05:51 AM, Todd Weiler wrote:
