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This 12-year-old kid learned to code on Codecademy, built 5 apps, and is speaking at SXSWNecessity, they say, is the mother of invention. Even when you're 11 years old. Last year Las Vegas kid Ethan Duggan found himself in a tough spot. His mother returned from a whirlwind shopping trip with "about 40 dresses, skirts, and tops." Without his father home, Ethan was the default watcha-think-of-this audience.
Idea LabHow Journalists Can Secure Their Digital Perimeter Truism of the day: Your digital perimeter is not secure. You know that. The question for journalists is what can you do right now to strengthen it? Are your editors and managing editors doing enough to help you?
Tor Project: FAQTor passes your traffic through at least 3 different servers before sending it on to the destination. Because there's a separate layer of encryption for each of the three relays, Tor does not modify, or even know, what you are sending into it.
Cargo-BotRead reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Cargo-Bot on the App Store. Download Cargo-Bot and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
The beginners guide to breaking website security with nothing more than a PineappleWednesday, April 17, 2013 You know how security people get all uppity about SSL this and SSL that? Stuff like posting creds over HTTPS isn't enough, you have to load login forms over HTTPS as well and then you can't send auth cookies over HTTP because they'll get sniffed and sessions hijacked and so on and so forth.
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How To Create A Twitter WidgetTwitter needs no introduction. It has become the way to reach audiences for some people and companies and a place to hang out for others. Placing a Twitter feed on one's website has almost become compulsory.
Dodge the NSA with This Fancy Encrypted Messaging ServicePeter Sunde, smiling because he loves encryption. Image via WikiCommons A lopsided chunk of the talk pinging back and forth around the interwebs in the ongoing Snowden coverage has been largely focused on the spy-drama of the man himself, rather than the implications of what he revealed.
Building An App In 45 Minutes With MeteorThe other day, I finally accomplished one of my long-standing goals: to go from one of those "Wouldn't it be cool..." ideas to a working, live app in less than 1 hour. 45 minutes, actually. It all started with a design meet-up in San Francisco.
How To Create A Twitter WidgetTwitter needs no introduction. It has become the way to reach audiences for some people and companies and a place to hang out for others. Placing a Twitter feed on one's website has almost become compulsory.
