Simon Willison’s Weblog

Ubuntu sugar cookies (via) Different coloured dough is used to bake the Ubuntu logo in to the cookies themselves, kind of like making sushi rolls.

# 2:49 pm / cookies, cooking, ubuntu

Choosing Secure Passwords. Bruce Schneier describes the state of the art in password cracking software.

# 2:55 pm / bruce-schneier, passwords, security

OpenID Speech at Webtuesday Zurich. Good set of slides, along with the tidbit that local.ch (which had slippy maps years before Google) is implementing OpenID.

# 3:27 pm / maps, openid, slides

The Adobe PDF XSS Vulnerability. If you host a PDF file anywhere on your site, you’re vulnerable to an XSS attack due to a bug in Acrobat Reader versions below 8. The fix is to serve PDFs as application/octet-stream to avoid them being displayed inline.

# 4:23 pm / adobe, pdf, security, vulnerability, xss

Firefox3/Firefox Requirements (via) OpenID and CardSpace are both listed as mandatory features.

# 6:56 pm / cardspace, firefox, identity, openid