Security, Legal Bypass, Warrants, and Apple
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Apple has announced they won’t be unlocking iOS 8 phones in response to warrants, not as a point of policy, but because the system they’ve built won’t allow it.
Technology
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If you’re not part of the solution …
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I use WordPress daily; I critique it almost as frequently. Are my suggestions contributing to a solution or just further conflating the problem?
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DNS and Cross-Site Scripting
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One of the first things on any security auditor’s list is checking to see if a site is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS).
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Freedom of Information
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A world where the information to which we have access is tightly controlled is a world in which democracy, free thought, and liberty dies.
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Birthdays and Three-way Hash Collisions
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Let’s work out the probability that, in a given group of individuals, at least three share a birthday.
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WordPress and Default Themes
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First we had Twenty Ten. Then came Twenty Eleven. Then came the potential of a new default theme every year. We’re doing it wrong.
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7 Things WordPress Developers do Right
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I recognize a lot of what we, in the WordPress community, do wrong, but I also want to highlight several things we do right.
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Inbox: Is self-learning enough?
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Has a lack of formal computer education caused issues in my career? Absolutely not.
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The Birthday Paradox
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There’s a paradox in statistics that states, in a group of 23 people, the chance that two people having the same birthday is 50%.
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Splinternet
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If policymakers can’t be stopped from attempting to act in their constituents’ “best interest,” perhaps we should band together to build a freer alternative that’s less easy for policymakers to ruin.