All HTTPS all the time, With HSTS to boot
I’ve been brushing up on my web security best practices recently. OWASP is a great resource for this! One of their recommended best practices is to use HTTP Strict Transport […]
January 2015
On The Register’s security posts
Intro: 2 posts, 1 bored security tinkerer I was stuck on a cross-country plane trip recently, and I started reading up on some security posts. I found two interesting ones, […]
Tip: Better Amazon URLs
Have you ever had a friend send you an Amazon link that was all kinds of long and ugly? Maybe it looked like this: http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Tiana-Balloon-Bouquet-Balloons/dp/B00BIIAUY4/ref=sr_1_1/187-3169712-6163024?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1421967348&sr=1-1 Thought you can clearly see […]
On ClouldFlare’s use of reCAPTCHA
I’ve been using Tor quite a bit of late. It’s awesome!! I encourage you to check it out today. One of the drawbacks to using Tor is that some content […]
Root on Verizon Galaxy S5 on NK2 Firmware
After my S3 took a quick, but not quick enough, drink in the kitchen sink, I upgraded to an S5. It’s a really great phone. However, I had been running […]
Shibby Tomato firmware on Asus RT-N66U router via OS X plus tcpdump
I’ve been trying to get close to what I call “end to end open source” (you know, as opposed to encryption) which means that everything from my desktop OS to […]
Importing and Trouble Shooting WordPress Imports
I’ve recently achieved the life long dream of having one single WordPress instance for all my blogs and blogs I host. No more days of upgrading 15 different instances, but […]