Two security researchers have identified five related techniques for hijacking internet accounts by preparing them to be commandeered in advance. And they claim that when they analyzed 75 popular internet services, almost half were vulnerable to at least one of these techniques.
Author Archives: Phil
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.
I obviously I don’t watch enough “mindless” blockbusters any more. Either that or it just started out a bit too Poe-faced. Maybe it was the very real flight scenes that threw me?
By the time I realised what I was watching it was a bit too late to enjoy it as intended. I’ll need to watch it again!
★★★
Two Brooklyn siblings' summer in a rural Oahu town takes an exciting turn when a journal pointing to long-lost treasure sets them on an adventure, leading them to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage.
This works for me across the board. Whether as a Goonies homage, a weird anti-tourism commentary, family bonding drama or a fun family film.
It is WAY too long but, for me, there were some moments that made that worthwhile.
★★★½
Spent about an hour this morning trying to fetch data from an API in JS. It wasn’t working in jsfiddle (or similiar) and I wasn’t get any useful error messages. The code worked, just didn’t like the API. Turns out CQC didn’t plan on anyone using JS – “CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing”.
Today I accidentally added a bunch of neat functionality to our WordPress site. I didn’t plan to. I was making a minor change and it just grew…
Some days you just forget how to comment a line in HTML…
Tantek Çelik (tantek.com)Since ~2021* I’ve redirected /github to my GitHub profile to own my links to GH repos like https://github.com/tantek/cassis Apache htaccess code to #OwnYourLinks: RedirectTemp /github https://github.com/tantek change /tantek to your GitHub /username More on this technique: https://indieweb.org...
Just double-clicked a .vsd file in Windows Explorer and it fires up Internet Explorer to open the file. I didn’t set the default. Then it starts lecturing me about Edge. I mean…
Fiddling with gists
For my RSS to micropub implementation I needed to generate a decent slug in JS. I found this slugify.js gist by codeguy to which a coder called thierryc made some really nice modifications (but weirdly didn’t publish their own that I could find).
I tested thierry’s code in jsfiddle and found it left a trailing ‘-‘. Using the fiddle I was able to step through the code and see where it went wrong. I just added an extra replace and it worked for me.
I’ve never really found a use for jsfiddle or gists before so this felt good.
Not sure £7.5m is enough to be honest. Quite like to see some criminal charges for this craziness! https://news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-company-clearview-ai-fined-7-5m-for-illegally-using-images-of-brits-scraped-from-online-12619574