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So those 184 sites use the same nonce each time? I didn't think anyone would be that sloppy, that's why I figured someone might be using a bad RNG or something. To be honest your explanation isn't that clear to me though; what is the actual mechanism that the 184 sites use? Forcing a site to...

That number of requests mentioned toward the end sounds a bit as if there's an integer overflow or a relatively short period involved due to an inferior random number generator. Is that what this is about? If the implementation of certain organizations like Visa actually reuses the same nonce in...

Nice article. When you say "how the Internet works", I thought there'd be a little more about the software that runs it all though, not just a link to a tutorial about TCP/IP. By the way, OSI stands for Open Systems Interconnection. For those who want to know a lot more details about how to use...

I've been thinking that too, but for some reason it seems to prefer trying to fetch the previous page anew instead of caching it, input and all. Might have something to do with form resubmitting, but then maybe they should put the decision there and only cache pages that can't lead to trouble if...

I can see not understanding why it has to be the backspace, but surely people understand the concept of a shortcut? Incidentally I've often been annoyed not by the action of the backspace of taking me back a page but by pages that automatically focus on a text input field and thereby prevent...

Can we get this kind of level-headedness in the new cryptowars? Maybe then we won't speak of cryptowars anymore.

So is confirmation bias. Think about how long they got away with it, and about how many sites have never been breached or have never had exploits, hidden or otherwise. Also, cracking a hotmail account? It sounds to me like many of those half million account might have been made by one-time...

Perhaps people fail to see the threat because "I've got nothing to hide and whatever needs hiding, must be wrong."

I guess it's a good thing there's some distance between taking off without blowing up on the launch pad and reaching orbit successfully.

If you mean you didn't vote at all, I would say this is precisely why we do need to vote, to keep clowns like that as far way from power as possible. Also, I can't believe the demands those US negotiators are making. No wonder they were so keen to keep them secret.

Cyber powers? I think it would suffice to just say power and spare us that annoying prefix/word that is being so overused these days. If it must be related to computing somehow, how about "enhanced power over computers and networks"?

If there's merely economical damage, why don't they set a heavy fine instead? That way the "injured" parties get their vaunted profit and the taxpayer is not required to pay for some guy to wait for a long time. Or do the prisoners have an economic value that can help mitigate the cost of their...

Could it be that you left a heavy app running? I was reading a PDF using Google drive's reader and forget it was still open, within a day my battery was drained.

What kind of madness possesses the people who found something to do to babies that could be labeled sexual abuse?

I thought the authorities were supposed to prosecute suspects. Why are they wasting their time trying to deal with all this data on innocent people, not to mention the costs of acquiring and storing it for who knows how long?

It's a delightful ruse, but it won't work if the suspect is already dead as in the San Bernardino case.

I used to play it but I tend to be more and more alienated by the effect of months or years of accumulated updates. If there was a feature I would like to see, and not just for that game, it would be some kind of summary of new and changed features since a given time, but I guess that's pretty...

I never understood why a professional company would put effort into modifying their products or producing "funny" videos of new features or products just for April fools'. Don't they have something better to do, or is this Google's way of trying to spread the culture of immaturity of Sillycon...

Wouldn't they just collude to all get their traffic back? What's stopping competitors that are delisted from giving Google a free license and a nice foot rub? As far as I can tell, the snippets in Google search results aren't always the essence. Sometimes they are very hard to read even I...

It seems that if they think attacking the hyperlink makes copyright law more fit for the Internet, they are actually admitting there is something nasty that pushes for such laws, where online or off. Also, it would seem it's a bit late to make the law fit for the Internet roughly two decades...