CNBC "How Secure Is Your Password" tester form is a spectacular security shitshow
It not only runs over HTTP, it also sends your password to a bunch of third-party ad trackers. omgwtfbbqfail
(tags: fail wtf funny cnbc clowns inept security passwords http ad-trackers)
Inside the GPO in 1916: Desmond FitzGerald’s eyewitness account
'First published 50 years ago, this first-hand account by the father of the future taoiseach Garrett FitzGerald created a storm by claiming that the rebel leaders sympathetically discussed the likelihood of the Germans putting a prince of their own on the Irish throne.' This is amazing -- the dispair and confusion is palpable. This is the first realistic-sounding account of what went on inside the GPO during the Easter Rising I've read, and the "German prince" gambit is pretty astonishing too.
(tags: easter-rising 1916 history gpo germany ireland desmond-fitzgerald royalty)
SmartThings Presence Detection using DD-WRT Router Script
neat trick -- using DD-WRT's arp tables and a cron job to detect presence of wifi devices (e.g. phones) and take action based on that. By using https://ifttt.com/maker , it should be feasible to wire up any IFTTT action when a device connects to my home wifi...
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quite a reasonable position, I think
(tags: tor cloudflare abuse anonymity captchas)