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More Rust compared to C++
More about the programming language Rust
When ‘int’ is the new ‘short’
Posted by Mark Brand, Truncator of IntegersThis is going to be a quick post, just describing a pa...
ES6 in Depth: Destructuring
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Editor’s note: An ...
My Weird Ruby
Over the past year, I've been rewriting large portions of the Middleman codebase to better reflect how I like to write code (as opposed to the silly version of me who did the original version 6 years ago). I've learned a lot since then, spent pretty much every day writing mostly Javascript and trying to find any…
How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East
Shortly after Microsoft Bing launched in 2009, researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet...
The Aol Chat Room Monitor Revolt (2014)
In 1999, America Online's volunteer chat room monitors sued the company for back wages. Do today's hot Internet companies risk the same fate?
Cookies Lack Integrity: Real-World Implications
Xiaofeng Zheng, Tsinghua University and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology; Jian Jiang, University of California, Berkeley; Jinjin Liang, Tsinghua University and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology; Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua National…
Mongo BSON Injection: Ruby Regexps Strike Again
We do penetration testing, source code auditing and vulnerability assessments
EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth Amendment
All too often, new police surveillance tools are initially applied to only the “worst of the worst” and then slowly—but surely—expanded to include an ever-growing number of less culpable individuals. We’ve seen it with DNA collection. And now we’re starting to see it with GPS tracking. That’s why...
Real time bidding in Erlang (2012)
I'm still on my way back from the Bay Area Erlang Factory 2012 (in fact I finished this post after coming back entirely), in San Francisco, and I've been starting to see a bunch of twitter posts regarding people posting their slides online. Although it is a good idea, I tend to view my slides as pure visual support…
Users Betrayed as Australia Adopts a Copyright Censorship Regime
Since our report last week on Australia's Internet censorship bill, the bill did indeed pass the Senate yesterday, and will become the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2015. The new law provides an accelerated process for rightsholders to obtain court orders for ISPs to block sites...
Happy Little Words – Analyzing the Bob Ross Twitch Chat
In late October the video game streaming site Twitch.tv launched "Twitch Creative" , essentially giving people permission to stream non-video game related creative content on the site. To celebrate the launch they streamed all 403 episodes of The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross in a giant marathon.
The lack of HTTPS at Amazon: identifying items purchased via information leakage
If you were to browse Amazon right now and someone was eavesdropping on your connection, they could tell exactly what you were looking at. They could even tell what you've bought.
Building Microservices: Free Ebook from O’Reilly and NGINX
Explore the world of microservices with this free ebook from O'Reilly and NGINX.
Instant Web Application
Instant TodoMVC demo (please use Chrome Desktop for now!), source Uses bottle-service library to implement self-rewriting Open your favorite web application, even a simple TodoMVC would work. Let it
Binary in JavaScript
Over the last week or so, I've spent my spare time working on a new roguelike game, with a focus on extensive and interesting planet generation. A key characteristic of the genre is that the game world is procedurally generated and this one is no exception.
BB-8 Droid Teardown
Discover hardware product teardowns to learn about key design for manufacturability and mechanical design principles.
AEADs: getting better at symmetric cryptography
I gave a talk a couple of weeks ago at the Yahoo Unconference . The conference was at the end of a particually hard week for a bunch of reasons and I fear that the talk wasn't that great. (Afterwards I got home about 3pm and pretty much slept until the following morning.) This post is a, hopefully clearer…