Sidestep. Simple Mac OS X application to run all of your web traffic through a proxy.
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My high school’s new grading system makes it trivial to view other students’ info (read: grades). Implications?
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My high school’s new grading system makes it trivial to view other students’ info (read: grades). Implications? Wow, talk about silly security flaws. (via Andrew Spittle)
The Dirty Truth About Web Passwords
The Dirty Truth About Web Passwords. Gawker made a number of classic mistakes. Another wake-up call for the internet driver’s license.
Gawker Media gets hacked
Gawker Media gets hacked. “Thoroughly and completely owned” is likely a better phrase.
Backdoors in the interwebs
On Tuesday, July 21 around 11 pm Pacific, I stumbled across a serious information security flaw in DuckWeb, the University of Oregon’s student information portal. For some of the work I’ve been doing with Publish2, I’ve been paying close attention to the composition and beauty of URLs. When printing out my degree audit for a trip down to Eugene the next day, I realised that the print version of the degree audit had a unique string of digits at the end of the URL. Curious, I changed the last two, refreshed, and ended up with someone else’s degree audit.
