Jan 2018 (p. 2/2)

Spying on a website using Webmention and MF2

marcus-povey.co.uk

Marcus Povey describes why a website should not show webmentions with embedded images from the source site (as it could allow the publisher of the source site to track the audience of the cited site). This is not Webmention or Indieweb specific, but a general […]
2018

The Looming Digital Meltdown - The New York Times

mobile.nytimes.com

We have built the digital world too rapidly. It was constructed layer upon layer, and many of the early layers were never meant to guard so many valuable things: our personal correspondence, our finances, the very infrastructure of our […]
2018

Planet Friendly Web Guide -

planetfriendlyweb.org

The internet is a great thing. It is also the biggest machine on earth, and it runs mostly on coal, which is bad news for our climate.
The Planet Friendly Web Guide is an ongoing work-in-progress, written in the open (which in […]
2018

I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how.

hackernoon.com

A fictional story showcasing a smart (social engineering) exploit to use npm packages as a backdoor vector for malicious code.
On any page that collects any data that you don’t want me (or my fellow attackers) to have, don’t use npm modules […]
2018

Final call for #btconf Munich

twitter.com

Kick off 2018 with a bang? Final call for @btconf #Munich, Jan 15-17! Fantastic web&design inspiration; my previous experiences
2018