Notices by Tek dba Tek (tek@freeradical.zone)

Recruiter email: "The client is an ultra-high net worth, $30 Billion Investment Management Firm", who wants to pay below-SF rates and requires on-site up in Marin.

If you want to hire, don't start off saying "look how rich we are, and BTW, you can't have it."

I’ve concluded that it’s impossible to mix presentation and content without being ass at both. Everything that tries to marry them is a maelstrom of suck. Traditional PHP, Word, and HTML font tags are good examples of this. In my experience, the only systems that are good at both content and presentation religiously separate them and combine them later, like web templates, Scrivener and Markdown, and CSS. Once presentation becomes part of the content, it always, *always* goes to hell.

Part of me wonders how hard it would be to write a modern BBS in, say, Python 3.recent with async.

Want to go from zero working #infosec knowledge to a reasonable amount in the shortest time possible? Read NIST's "SP 800-63-3: Digital Identity Guidelines" for free at https://www.nist.gov/itl/tig/projects/special-publication-800-63

It's an excellent crash course on how to write a decently secure user login system. It's readable. It's largely counterintuitive. It explains *why* they recommend each specific piece of advice.

Also, when you see someone making a bad choice later, you have the authority to say "no, we shouldn't do this."

PayPal becomes first member to exit Facebook's Libra Association

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cryptocurrency-paypal/paypal-becomes-first-member-to-exit-facebooks-libra-association-idUSKBN1WJ2CY?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews

Facebook encryption threatens public safety, say ministers

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49919464