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Why Phishing Attacks Succeed

May 16, 2017

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It’s impossible to train consumers on appropriate security behavior when the real ways of interacting with a bank so closely resemble phishing attacks.

What S.J. Resolution 34 Means For You

March 29, 2017

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Eric Mann

If you’re reading the news, you’ve probably seen hoards of tech journalists up in arms about S.J. Resolution 34. In a nutshell, this is an agreement by Congress to overturn a rule passed late last year by the FCC. The rule itself prohibited Internet service providers (ISPs) from collecting and sharing data about their customers

Introducing Sessionz

November 27, 2016

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Eric Mann

Introducing a new, middleware-inspired session handler for PHP projects (not just WordPress) called Sessionz. It’s open source; take a look!

Owning My Internet

October 24, 2016

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Eric Mann

For some access, I use an anonymous VPN proxy. When publishers block that kind of a VPN, I instead roll my own network with a Raspberry Pi from home.

Email Lock-down

October 17, 2016

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Eric Mann

Thanks to the beauty of open source (and other, smarter developers who’ve already traveled down this rabbit hole), I don’t have to figure out how to set up a personal mail server on my own. All of the tools are readily available!

Security, Internationalization, and Performance

April 6, 2016

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Eric Mann

When I began writing code for WordPress projects, I had no idea how to properly internationalize my content, There were a few blog posts at the time that accused developers like me of doing a disservice to our customers. I took offense at the time, but they had a point. Internationalization is extraordinarily important for

Deprecate Magic Constructors in PHP

April 1, 2016

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Eric Mann

Along the lines of the argument to make code easier to understand for quick readers, I want to propose something a little less radical and just as useful for devs: Deprecate the magic `__construct()` function.