The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)(utcc.utoronto.ca)

29 points by ingve 8 months ago | 35 comments

Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software(utcc.utoronto.ca)

117 points by todsacerdoti 7 months ago | 62 comments

I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input(utcc.utoronto.ca)

36 points by ingve 8 months ago | 19 comments

Undo in Vi and Its Successors(utcc.utoronto.ca)

36 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | 35 comments

Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages(utcc.utoronto.ca)

48 points by ankitg12 5 months ago | 4 comments

When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login(utcc.utoronto.ca)

45 points by ankitg12 4 months ago | 11 comments

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts(washingtonpost.com)

642 points by Despegar 1 year ago | 925 comments

Washington Post exclusive reporting that the U.K. secretly ordered Apple to provide blanket access to users' encrypted iCloud backups worldwide.

Writing secure Go code(jarosz.dev)

342 points by gus_leonel 2 years ago | 259 comments

Blog post by Jakub Jarosz outlining specific practices for writing robust, secure and performant Go code.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.

I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s(mcpherrin.ca)

461 points by ahlCVA 1 month ago | 106 comments

Blog post by Matthew McPherrin describing factoring the RSA keys of a 1990s-era certificate authority and what it says about RSA security.

Qwen3-Coder writes less secure code when told it's for a US persona(hirundo.io)

224 points by mattifrank 5 days ago | 118 comments

Hirundo blog case study claiming Qwen3-Coder produces more vulnerable code for customers framed as Beijing's adversaries, and describing a 'westernization' fix.

Cyber Security: A pre-war reality check(berthub.eu)

446 points by edent 2 years ago | 199 comments

Bert Hubert's lightly edited transcript of his talk at the ACCSS/NCSC/Surf 'Cyber Security and Society' seminar on cybersecurity preparedness ahead of potential war.