Category Archives: Security

O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge

The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for peo­ple to get dig­i­tal information/media/anything is just wrong.

January 16, 2012 – 11:25 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Copyright, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

ArsTechnica – Wikipedia to join reddit in SOPA blackout Wednesday

I’ll also be post­ing a mes­sage to protest and inform peo­ple about PIPA and SOPA, though I imag­ine Wikipedia will have a much larger influence.

January 16, 2012 – 7:38 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

wingolog – Javascript eval Considered Crazy

No mat­ter how crazy and unsafe you con­sider eval this is just going to scare you a lit­tle more.

January 15, 2012 – 7:01 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Google Earth, other mobile apps leave door open for scripting attacks

Oops, just because it doesn’t look like a browser doesn’t mean it doesn’t suf­fer the same secu­rity holes.

December 6, 2011 – 7:20 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

DARPA Shredder Challenge

Neat chal­lenge, it would be cool to work on this prob­lem but image analy­sis is so far out of my area of expertise.

October 27, 2011 – 11:31 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, Programming, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Bank of America Explains Web Site Problems

Bank of Amer­ica, we weren’t hacked instead we are just incompetent.

October 5, 2011 – 11:46 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Macworld – The App Culture

This was the largest fear with Lion, and Apple has yet to respond in a way that alle­vi­ates people’s fears for such apps that need a higher level of access that it appears that Apple will allow.

October 2, 2011 – 7:00 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off