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Sunday, 30th September 2007

Currently WebRunner applications share cookies with other WebRunner applications, but not with Firefox. WebRunner uses its own profile, not Firefox's profile. There is a plan to allow WebRunner applications to create their own, private profiles as well.

Mark Finkle

# 4:08 pm / cookies, csrf, firefox, mark-finkle, security, sitespecificbrowsers, webrunner

Designing for a security breach

User account breaches are inevitable. We should take that in to account when designing our applications.

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Idea: The Histogram as the Image. How to hide the New York City skyline in the histogram of an image.

# 9:34 pm / graphics, histogram, image

Email addresses your OpenID via DNS. Sam Ruby has warmed to the idea of making e-mail addresses usable as OpenIDs via a DNS SRV record.

# 9:36 pm / dns, email, openid, sam-ruby, srv