Month: June 2020

The Internet is too unsafe: We need more hackers

There is still much confusion about the term “hacker”.  I think this guy has the right view.  Hackers are human, they are not absolute black and absolute white hats.  They are all grey with different shadesm but he is right about have a Responsible Disclosure Policy. “Not having a Responsible Disclosure Policy or retaliating against

Gopherspace in the Year 2020

It is also a good tutorial on lynx.  I think lynx should come available in any “unix” distribution. The “text only” is a nice break from the “javascript” world we live in nowadays.  HTML took over the internet a while back but there are plenty of other protocols that existed and we forgot.  Gopher is

RSS Box

I find this interesting; “This website lets you subscribe to RSS feeds for websites that do not support RSS themselves, by using the respective website’s API and then translating that data to RSS feeds.” https://rssbox.herokuapp.com/

Let them paste passwords

Allow your website to accept pasted passwords – it makes your site more secure, not less. … https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/let-them-paste-passwords