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Password Rules Are Bullshit
Of the many, many, many bad things about passwords, you know what the worst is? Password rules.
If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost pic.twitter.com/Tf9EnwgoZv
— Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) August 11, 2015
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You should've asked
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Is this your card?
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Safe now
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Voronoi Diagrams
Imagine I’m in a desert, and there are two wells where I can obtain water. If I want to go to the nearest well, which well do I visit? Clearly, it depends one where I am standing. It’s possible to draw a line dividing the desert. To the ‘left’ of the line, it’s nearer to …
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The FREQ Show: 00.02 The Unmanning of Trump
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Miniatur Wunderland - world's largest model railway
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AMP Is Poisonous
AMP, Google's technology that tries to make the mobile web faster by giving Google a monopoly over it, is fucking poisonous and it destroys everything that makes the Web great. Reject AMP!
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The Anti-Vaxx Vaccine
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Climate Change Was a Hoax!
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I'm Being Harassed
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Random Obsessions
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Let them paste passwords
One of the things people often tweet to us @ncsc are examples of websites which prevent you pasting in a password. Why do websites do this? The debate has raged - with most commentators raging how annoying it is.
So why do organisations do this? Often no reason is given, but when one is, that reason … -
This guy in a hotel
AltA naked man gets locked out of his hotel room
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AMP: breaking news
Google has made much of their Accelerated Mobile Pages project as a solution to bloated websites and frustrated users. But could AMP actually be bad news for the web, bad news for news, and part of a trend of news distribution that is bad for society in general?
I didn’t start out as strongly …