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FUCK PASSWORDS – Blog – December 2011 – veekun: fuzzy notepad
“Please tell me, what is the difference between this: password: freedom favorite color: red And this: password: freedom red Answer: the first case gives an attacker a big hint on what the answer might be! Awesome, that’s exactly what i want for my password.”
Internet Explorer limits nested @import CSS statements | Jorge Albaladejo
Nesting a bunch of @imports is brutal for released code anyway, but it comes up a lot in dev situations with js libraries… Such a relief that somebody else was seeing this too.
The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
Hooray for comparing FB to AOL + Prodigy in the 90s. Also for RDF jokes. “You might almost think that the whole scheme had been cooked up by a bunch of hyperintelligent but hopelessly socially naive people, and you would not be wrong. Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender. Our industry abounds in people for whom social interaction has always been more of a puzzle to be reverse-engineered than a good time to be had, and the result is these vaguely Martian protocols.”