- Punting on SxSW (Brad Feld) — I came across this old post and thought: if you can make money by being a dick, or make money by being a caring family person, why would you choose to be a dick? As far as I can tell, being a dick is optional. Brogrammers, take note. Be more like Brad Feld, who prioritises his family and acts accordingly.
- Probabilistic Structures for Data Mining — readable introduction to useful algorithms and datastructures showing their performance, reliability, and resources trade-off. (via Hacker News)
- Dataset — a Javascript library for transforming, querying, manipulating data from different sources.
- Many HTTPS Servers are Insecure — 75% still vulnerable to the BEAST attack.
ENTRIES TAGGED "ssl"
Four short links: 2 May 2012
Elective Dickery, Probabilistic Data Analysis, Data Cleaning, and SSL Security
TLS Report grades and reports on site security
My friend Ben Black just released TLS Report, a free (ad-supported) tool that evaluates SSL/TLS configurations across websites and assigns letter grades. In the example below, Facebook gets a D because it accepts several keys that are below 128-bits and relies on MD5: Ben explains: Cryptography is arcane and complex. Cryptography is also the basis for the various protocols that…
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