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Your Reviewers Approved the Line on Screen and the Compiler Read a Different One
The pull request came from outside the team. A small fix to the permissions check, with a helpful c…
Access Token vs Refresh Token in Android: Secure Authentication with Kotlin
A user logs in to an Android application. The backend returns an access token and a refresh token. T…
Anyone can run up your OpenAI bill
An AI endpoint with no sign-in and no rate limit can be called in a loop by a bot or one curious per…
I Tested 18 Online PDF and Image Tools: 12 Uploaded My File
TL;DR: I added the same test PDF and the same test photo to 18 popular free online PDF and image too…
Microsoft Blocked the Macros in Our Timber Quote Workbook and Our Branches Learned to Unblock Everything
For eleven years our branches have priced cut timber orders with a workbook. A builder brings in a c…
Handling GDPR DSARs without violating data minimization: An engineering guide
When a user submits a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) under GDPR Article 15, engineering teams of…
An advisory published that afternoon blocked our hotfix and every rollback we could build
Our storefront is a Node application, and for two years its pipeline has run npm audit --audit-level…
FortiGate Upgrade Dropped LAN-to-LAN Traffic — allow-traffic-redirect and the Implicit Deny Nobody Planned For
A war story about a firewall upgrade that finished cleanly and cut two LANs apart — traffic that had…
What Is Privacy by Design in Software?
Privacy by design in a software build means embedding data protection, strict access limits, and com…
Browser extension monitoring: spot a sold or hijacked add-on
Originally published on Extenify. Browser extension monitoring matters because the extension you ve…
Build an Identity-First Security Workflow
The problem: five controls, five disconnected dashboards An employee signs in from a new device. M…
What's New in RubyGems/Bundler 4.1, Part 2: Defenses Against Supply Chain Attacks
I'm Hiroshi Shibata (hsbt), a Ruby committer and the lead maintainer of RubyGems and Bundler. …