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april.social
Staff Security Engineer at some random tech company, previously Mozilla, Dropbox, and (pre-Elon) Twitter. Has read @kateconger.bsky.social’s autobiography. web @ grayduck.mn // also github.com/april
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as someone who used to work at twitter and who spent the last half-decade working with T&S teams, this whole aaron thing (where the bluesky head of trust liked a porn scam post) almost stretches incredulity. imagine designing a social media network in the 2020’s with public likes.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

was asked a really interesting question in an interview yesterday: given a budget, which areas of security spending produce the greatest and worst (or negative) ROI? my answer: positive: SSO/OAuth, hardware keys worst: DAST, DLP, honorable mention to poorly configured IDS’s what’s your answer?

submitted 77 days ago • 12 comments

Handling Cookies is a Minefield: Inconsistencies in the HTTP cookie specification and its implementations have caused a situation where countless websites (including Facebook, Netflix, Okta, WhatsApp, Apple, etc.) are one small mistake away from locking their users out. grayduck.mn/2024/11/21/h...

submitted 96 days ago • 14 comments

close, it’s actually: input -> unexpected condition -> unhandled exception

submitted 122 days ago • 4 comments

“hey babe, what do you wanna watch tonight?” “I dunno, something red maybe?”

submitted 363 days ago • 11 comments

happy halloween everyone, please enjoy this costume my son wore a couple years back of himself dressed up as a TI-89 calculator (costume designer: my talented wife)

submitted 482 days ago • 5 comments

finally a vehicle that will protect me from kindergarteners with hammers 😮‍💨

submitted 493 days ago • 6 comments

new septum piercing who dis

submitted 498 days ago • 3 comments

apple having “video effects” such as rising balloons on by default in macOS Sonoma has got to be one of the greatest trolls of all time. (as my therapist discovered during our session yesterday)

submitted 510 days ago • 1 comment

dear diary, thankfully nobody will ever know that my 10-year-old son just kicked my ass at DDR. 😮‍💨

submitted 519 days ago • 2 comments

I appreciate Amazon having such a generous limit. As someone who types 60 words per minute for 17 hours per day, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to publish my three daily novels. arstechnica.com/information-...

submitted 520 days ago • 1 comment

the new iOS live voicemail feature is going to save me from having to deal with an absolutely immense about of bullshit

submitted 525 days ago • 2 comments

teens are based

submitted 525 days ago • 16 comments