Monthly Archives: December 2011

These things are hard

Posted on 2011-12-27 by Graham

Mike Lee recently wrote about his feelings on seeing those classic pictures from the American space program, in which the earth appears as a small blue marble set against the backdrop of space. His concluding paragraph: Life has its waves. … Continue reading →

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On explaining stuff to people

Posted on 2011-12-17 by Graham

An article that recently made the rounds, though it was written back in September, is called Apple’s Idioten Vektor. It’s a discussion of how the CCCrypt() function in Apple’s CommonCrypto library, when used in its default cipher block chaining mode, … Continue reading →

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On SSL Pinning for Cocoa [Touch]

Posted on 2011-12-07 by Graham

Moxie Marlinspike, recently-acquired security boffin at Twitter, blogged about SSL pinning. The summary is that relying on the CA trust model to validate SSL certificates introduces some risk into using an app – there are hundreds of trusted roots in … Continue reading →

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A bunch of monkeys with typewriters

Posted on 2011-12-02 by Graham

As with many of the posts in this blog, this one originally started as a tweet that got too long. With the launch of Path 2, a conversation about Atos ditching email for social media and Yammer posting a video … Continue reading →

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