Yes, .zip is one more neat little trick that can be used for URL cloaking. No, this does not matter whatsoever. Users will happily click https://‌virus.danger.malware.warning.will-fuck-your-computer.evil/ with zero hesitation. Cloaking tricks are academic.

Pretty balanced and well researched look at the issue. Will have to save my insulted German outrage for something else.

That's how it is.

So, in summary. Twitter is showing me an ad for things I have specifically blocked, that includes words that is in my block list, targeted people in a country that I'm not in. This is what advertisers are paying for. It's basically fraud.

Obviously most editors-in-chief disagree, but I think what you publish in the opinion section should still be - fact checked, - broadly consistent with your editorial profile, and - not batshit crazy. It's not supposed to be a landfill for trash opinions.

"We raced a McLaren against a dead donkey, and somehow, the car won!"

New IT policy just dropped

Okay, so, we may need one more lane.

OS internals books are wild...

Often misrepresented on TV where it's like, oh no, a burner phone, we can't do anything! But an unregistered cell phone paid with cash still has location records. If you regularly take it home with you, might as well be in your name. schneier.com/blog/archives/…

At this point I consider using @azure for anything even slightly sensitive to be pretty damned close to professional negligence.

Aspiring to own your own home is less about it defining ‘success’ and more about stability and security. 2 things we don’t have and haven’t had in the rental sector. I firmly believe if there was both security and stability for renters, many would happily just rent.

pavel.network/please-stop-us…

This was my first exposure to something that would become an enduring theme: never underestimate what you can accomplish by reading more of the Internet than anyone thinks is reasonable.