Thursday, 10. April 12014
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Clear Off the Table.

As with charts, rather than dressing up our data we should be stripping it down.

As far as I understand, Forward Secrecy is the current way to go and mitigate issues like the Heartbleed bug. Thus, I followed the advice at the Mozilla Wiki (via) and now the secure HTTP connection to p3k.org is rated “A” (instead of “A-”) at the Qualys SSL Labs.

The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now.

Bruce Schneier on the Heartbleed bug: “On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11”.

I am just a tiny administrator of a few servers and can hardly cope already with the taks to change all their certificates and keys – besides all the web site login credentials. I feel with every person having to orchestrate this in a huge infrastructure…

Wednesday, 9. April 12014
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OpenSSL is not developed by a responsible team.

“Theo de Raadt says the memory allocation and release methods on modern systems would've prevented the ‘Heartbleed’ flaw, but OpenSSL explicitly chose to override these methods because some time ago on some operating systems performance wasn't very good.”

1923.

Sam Lanin: Yes! We Have No Bananas.

Also available as plucky piano mix and as mad marimba version.

Saturday, 5. April 12014
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Scripting your browser, the Carioca way.

Moonshine – A lightweight Lua VM for the browser.

Oh, I did not know there is an acronym for publishing on your own site and syndicating elsewhere – but of course there is: POSSE.

Found Data ≠ Big Data.

A shameful waste of nutrients, disabling, and a dead giveaway to any nearby predators.

Menstruation: What is the evolutionary or biological purpose of having periods?