Some Thoughts About Alternative (Computing) Lifestyles ⭐

Today, we can effectively de-enshittify Windows 11 and remove its worst behaviors. But what if that changes?
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The US Spent $30 Billion on Classroom Laptops and Got the First Generation Less Capable Than Its Parents

More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers — distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools in 2002 — neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year that Gen… Continue reading The US Spent $30 Billion on Classroom Laptops and Got the First Generation Less Capable Than Its Parents

Open Redirects: A Forgotten Vulnerability?, (Tue, Feb 24th)

In 2010, OWASP added “Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards” to its Top 10 list and merged it into “Sensitive Data Exposure” in 2013 [owasp1] [owasp2]. Open redirects are often overlooked, and their impact is not always well understood. At first, it does not look like a big deal. The user is receiving a 3xx status code and is being redirected to another URL. That target URL should handle all authentication and access control, regardless of where the data originated.

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