Incomplete List of ways I would theoretically bully and confuse Julius Caesar

This is an extended version of Brian’s Pizza Recipe, which, because I’m a dumbass I fucked up a few times, with some amendments also from my brother who linked it to me. It also specifically describes toppings I like. …

For a discipline operating on the forefront of today’s technology, security for both better and worse has its roots in an almost universal super-cultural experience of safety that even as our society becomes expressed more and more on essentially imaginary electrical oscillations on a network, continues to work invisibly behind…

A grey kitchen lies before you. Therein stands a person attempting to peel an apple. Painstakingly, they cut it slowly bit-by-bit with a knife. “Couldn’t this be easier?” the advertisement asks. Clearly the answer is meant to be ‘yes’. Out comes a shiny contraption, where linkages make short work of…

Every now and then, the incredible aesthetic quality of the UIs in Neon Genesis comes up. And for good reason. They’re incredibly cool. Everyone who works with interfaces should be looking at these and asking themselves why interfaces don’t look like this. Where did we go so wrong? Where’s the…

Here’s a question from a co-worker I get quite often: Considering that curl requests do not have the restriction of the fetch API, how does this browser policy [CORS] prevent circumventing abuse or misuse of server endpoints if an attacker can anyways do so by default via curl? …

on the security implications of locally hosted web services — I. Spotify’s All Singing, All Dancing Musical Backdoor II. The Übersicht RCE III. Wrapping Up I try to bring this up whenever I have the chance to talk about application security architecture: the way we think about networks as boundaries is useful, but inadequate in 2018 and this has serious…