Some folk have asked me for more details about the DigiNotar breach after my brief appearance on Al Jazeera this morning. So here are the notes I prepared for the segment. Links at the bottom. Background web security certificates are digital IDs issued by companies entrusted with making sure they are given to the right … Read more
The DigiNotar breach (“Operation Black Tulip”) is certainly likely to be a watershed in Internet security, and possibly in how we perceive cyberwar. But one lesser point may get lost: how vulnerable we are with a single username password to access all Google accounts. Not only does that single account gain potential access to email … Read more
Have blogs changed our idea of what constitutes a well-designed webpage? I was reading Wired’s interesting piece on guerrilla webpage redesign, where disgruntled folk take the content of a badly designed website and make their own mirror, throwing out the Javascript, cookies, confusing menus, bugs, excessive art-junk for a slimmed down, simplified imitation on their … Read more