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a simpler, webbier approach to Web Intents (or Activities)

Posted: Thursday, February 9th, 2012 @ 10:14 am in mozilla, web | 11 Comments »

A few months ago, Mike Hanson and I started meeting with James, Paul, Greg, and others on the Google Chrome team. We had a common goal: how might web developers build applications that talk to each other in a way that the user, not the site, decides which application to use? For example, how might [...]

encryption is (mostly) not magic

Posted: Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 @ 3:17 pm in crypto, mozilla, privacy, security, web | 12 Comments »

A few months ago, Sony’s Playstation Network got hacked. Millions of accounts were breached, leaking physical addresses and passwords. Sony admitted that their data was “not encrypted.” Around the same time, researchers discovered that Dropbox stores user files “unencrypted.” Dozens (hundreds?) closed their accounts in protest. They’re my confidential files, they cried, why couldn’t you [...]