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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Apr 12, 10:39
Does 'charset=utf8' work anywhere? Or do other browsers fallback to UTF-8 just giving the appearance? @ericlaw http://wp.me/p60i9o-r 
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Apr 12, 10:27
GitHub has spoiled me. We need a pull-request HTTP method and then you can just fix it for them. https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/587614039645143040 …
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Retweet of taoeffect

2015 Apr 11, 11:12
On "front doors" (lol) and key splitting: "FBI+Apple" is just FBI if Apple must do what FBI says. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/mobile/world/encryption-techniques-and-access-they-give/1665/ …
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Retweet of ncardozo

2015 Apr 11, 10:58
The NSA does not have "an absolute right to gain access to every way in which two people may choose to communicate." http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/nsa-dreams-of-smartphones-with-split-crypto-keys-protecting-user-data/ …
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Retweet of imelven

2015 Apr 11, 10:19
Naming is important: in Rails you can output raw unescaped HTML with .safe_html - in React a similar API is called dangerouslySetInnerHTML
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Retweet of terrajobst

2015 Apr 10, 11:21
We need to be careful. GUIDs are precious little creatures! pic.twitter.com/X9Iv6Guwdn
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Apr 9, 9:30
If only we had some mechanism to validate the integrity of http sessions. https://twitter.com/dangoodin001/status/586568133038579712 …
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Apr 9, 4:34
Scripting in cdb/kd is not pleasant. Using PowerShell to script cdb/kd instead: http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2009/01/21/scripting-windbg-with-powershell/ … . Any other better ways?
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Retweet of sleevi_

2015 Apr 7, 2:41
Rad to see Mozilla in on the fun! For Chrome, see https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/2LXKVWYkOus … and https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/security-dev/pnsUO-KxzTs … // @metromoxie https://twitter.com/jruderman/status/585562933914181635 …
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Apr 6, 9:21
How to decide to trust a password mgr? Have to write my own to be sure of author's intentions. But then also sure mgr will have dumb flaws.
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Retweet of SwiftOnSecurity

2015 Apr 3, 7:24
Go watch Primer. Do it. It's the only movie you'll still feel like an idiot watching after 5 times. Seriously. It's amazing.
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Apr 2, 10:43
Tesla's April fools headline fooled stock trading algorithms causing $1.50 jump: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-02/tesla-stockholders-can-t-take-a-joke …
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Mar 30, 10:52
Or from GitHub's POV, how else can you use this XSS? Example: Open a new window with info on howto subvert particular censorship. What else?
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Retweet of newsycombinator

2015 Mar 30, 12:31
NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html …
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Retweet of xeni

2015 Mar 29, 11:10
1. House 2. Dressed as house 3. Listening to house 4. Rendition of Brick House 5. While painting house 6. Onto House http://boingboing.net/2015/03/30/deep-deep-deep-deep-deep-deep.html …
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Mar 29, 11:01
Faust: I want to XSS everyone! Devil: Sign here… Faust: Oh no, GitHub server's can't handle the traffic! ♪ Twilight zone theme ♪
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Mar 29, 10:53
Any more technical details on the GitHub DDOS beyond this http://insight-labs.org/?p=1682  for the curious?
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Mar 26, 2:45
Hilarious dev's Tinder bot woman proxies male suitors' messages to one another. http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/25/8277743/tinder-hack-bros-swiping-bros … Sitcom misunderstanding generator.
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Retweet of jakesutton

2015 Mar 26, 2:40
@waxpancake Just make Waxy automagically switch over if you don’t post anything manually for N days.
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Mar 25, 12:15
Cool Creative Commons limited edition shirt made of Noun Project images - http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45224 … @creativecommons. Just ordered mine!
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