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Spammers are a huge deal nowadays. If you want to share your contact information without getting overwhelmed by spam email you need a solution. I run into this problem a few months ago. While I was researching how to solve …

Fingerprinting is bad. It’s a term that refers to building up enough metadata about a user that you can essentially figure out who they are. JavaScript has access to all sorts of fingerprinting possibilities, which then combined with the IP …

An interesting (scary) trick of an nearly undetectable exploit. Wolfgang Ettlinger:

What if a backdoor literally cannot be seen and thus evades detection even from thorough code reviews?

I’ll post the screenshot of the exploit from the post with the …

I’d like to tell you something not to do to make your website better. Don’t add any third-party scripts to your site.

That may sound extreme, but at one time it would’ve been common sense. On today’s …

Whatever, I just needed a title. Everyone’s favorite web security feature has crossed my desk a bunch of times lately and I always feel like that is a sign I should write something because that’s what blogging is. …

In HTML, there is a very clear input type for dealing with passwords:

<input type="password">

If you use that, you get the obfuscated bullet-points when you type into it, like:

••••••••

That’s the web trying to help with security. If …

When you load a file from an external server, you’re trusting that the content you request is what you expect it to be. Since you don’t manage the server yourself, you’re relying on the security of yet another third party …