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.
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…
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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
After that, if I never have to deal with any JS again in my life it might be too soon!
Well, I fixed it… but now I have a massive hyper-focus hangover/overwhelm! #ADHD