Today I published a blog post about how to easily run and automate security tests while developing your websites and web applications using Zed Attack Proxy. The example uses Ruby on Rails framework but it is independent of any stack. I’m planning to write a follow up article on the same theme, so any feedback on […]
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“Bloat”
Last week I’ve read a great post entitled “Web Design: The First 100 Years“, it is a long one but definitely worth reading. I will just leave here a quote (3 short paragraphs) because it puts into words something that already crossed my mind multiple times. “A further symptom of our exponential hangover is bloat. […]
Firefox has been my browser of choice for quite some time now. However recent decisions made by Mozilla are increasing my desire to change soon. They added “ads” on the “new tab page”, changed the UI to just look like chrome, decided to include DRM directly into the browser (more on that), etc. The last […]
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European Copyright Madness
After seeing many countries applying taxes to storage devices (as it will happen in Portugal from the 1st of July on) to compensate copyright holders (I’m still trying to understand how they will know which one, and not fill the pockets of some opportunist) the news today gave me one more prof that we are […]
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Plasma 5
Upon the release of the new version of Kubuntu, I decided to update my Ubuntu machine and move from the rock solid KDE4 to the new Plasma 5 desktop environment. In this post I do a small overview of my experience with it until now. I first started with the version 5.2 since it is […]
Last week was (finally) the premiere of the film “Capitão Falcão“, the first Portuguese super-hero. Since I was one of the “few” that saw the pilot, when this project was supposed to be some kind of TV show, I had high expectations for it (believe me, the pilot was good). The film is supposed to […]
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Folding@Home
Recently I’ve started “folding” again, to give a small contribution to science and research on important topics such as Alzeimer’s disease among others (as the above video shows). After 2 previous failed attempts (the old computer could not handle it), I’m currently on my longest streak and have just completed the first 100 work units. […]
Please avoid what is happening right now with the student’s platform of my university, that is, letting your SSL certificate expire over the weekend. Initially it will raise suspicion and distrust based on the alert showed by the browser and if the issue lasts too long it will expose lots of users to phishing attacks, […]
Another week, another scandal. The general public might pass by without noticing the recent news about Lenovo computers but the tech community in the Internet is incredulous. What we witnessed was serious and a betrayal of the customer confidence, so in this post I will try to briefly cover everything that I’ve read about the […]
Laura Poitras’ CITIZENFOUR Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014 by EFF