david_shaw

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   by david_shaw 16y ago

   From the article: BLADE "thwarts the ability of browser-based exploits to surreptitiously download and execute malicious content by remapping to the filesystem only those browser downloads to which a programmatically inferred user-consent
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   by david_shaw 16y ago

   This is a phenomenal introduction to refactoring to clean code. A lot of young developers with whom I interact tend to not understand the importance of cleanly refactored code. The hacker mentality, furthered perhaps by the prevalence of sc
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   by david_shaw 16y ago

   Keep in mind that there is no shortage of open source developers out there. I'm not trying to discourage you from contributing to open source projects (the community needs you!), only to remind you that a post like this can never fully an
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   by david_shaw 16y ago

   It's hard to implement securely. Think about this: if encryption/decryption is performed client-side (JavaScript), then any cross-site scripting (XSS) or cross-site request forgery (CSRF) could potentially leak sensitive information to an a