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In case you were wondering what the Technosailor does on occasion during the fall, here’s an idea:

I went bow hunting this morning and as usual, saw nothing and it rained. It seems everytime I go, the conditions are just not favorable. It sucks to get up at 4:30am for this. :)
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Still avoiding blogging on politics, I’ll merely link instead. It’s Saturday after all. Mark nails the principles at play in the new law passed by the House to legalize wireless wiretaps without a warrant.
Republicans can call it whatever they want. All that does is make them liars, in addition to being traitors to [...]

Earlier this week, I began a series on WordPress plugin security. We established that the golden rule of web security is to check the “gateways”. That is, watch the areas of a website that an attacker can use to send data to your website. I’d like to elaborate more on this today.
WordPress support maven, Podz, [...]

Our society seems to be obsessed with dark stories. The latest CNN.com news stories seem to tell the story:

Report: T.O. tried to kill himself
Police: 2 Sago Mine workers kill themselves
Opera canceled over fear of angering Muslims
Wife dead, husband running; kin scared to talk
Clouds of locusts descend on Cancun
Widow: ‘Croc Hunter’ death [...]

I had hopes that my story on the Democracy XSS exploit would make the front page of Digg. I felt it was highly important that people were aware of the problem and the best way to get eyes on the issue was via Digg. I’ve never gone through a massive Digg and expected the story [...]

As promised, today I begin an open-ended series on WordPress plugin security. How do you know what is secure? What tell tale signs might there be? How to train an untrained eye on code? But before we begin, we must establish a premise.
There are many kinds of security vulnerabilities. The most common vulnerabilities today lie [...]