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Logon Using Facebook ID? Understand the Devil’s Bargain You Made

Security.  Convenience.  Pick one!  That is my forever mantra. Now we are finding out that when you login to your favorite site using “Login with Facebook” your data is exposed to third parties.  Nice. According to research from “Freedom to Tinker” at Princeton, when a user logs in using Facebook’s API, Javascript on the site […]

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Software Supply Chain Attacks are Real

For those of you who have been reading my blog for some time, you know that I have written about the software supply chain security problem.  In a nutshell, the problem is that programmers rarely write code from zero anymore.  Instead teams write pieces of code and integrate it.  Then there is limited testing due […]

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Google to Add GMail Features – Maybe – For A Fee?

Google has a interesting strategy.  Build prototypes of products.  Show them or leak them.  See if anyone cares.   Kill them if it doesn’t work out – there are lots of examples.  After many users are already using them. One other thing that they do is attempt to lock users into the Google ecosystem.  Of course. […]

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