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Tuesday, 6th March 2007

phpbb-openid: Your AIM screen name is your OpenID. Log in to a phpBB board with an AOL OpenID and it will try to associate your OpenID with an account that lists that AIM in the profile. This is the kind of behaviour I talked about in my FOWA talk.

# 7:57 am / aim, aol, fowa, openid, phpbb, phpbbopenid

Security; AJAX; JSON; Satisfaction. The JSON attack I linked to earlier only works against raw arrays, which technically aren’t valid JSON anyway.

# 8:06 am / json, security, xss

OpenID on WordPress.com. My first project launch as a freelancer. You can now use your WordPress.com blog as an OpenID.

# 8:41 pm / freelance, openid, wordpress, wordpresscom

Hacking del.icio.us with Python. Nat introduces snaflr, a Python script for republishing selected links from a number of del.icio.us users to one communal account.

# 11:11 pm / delicious, natalie-downe, python