Sep 2018
We re-launched YouRTI.in and introduced the Telugu version on the 23rd of August 2018. It was an official announcement of the partnership with the Hyderabad-based NGO Yugantar. We had a member of the Central Information Commission present to “launch” the site and talk about the importance of the Right to Information [known in other countries […]
Jun 2018
In a previous article, I showed how to set up a web application to use microservices with just the bare minimum of effort. However, that can result in some limitations, such as the presentation layer (or API Gateway) that aggregates the results of the microservices using hard-coded endpoint addresses (e.g. http://localhost:8888/api/v1/fromurl). In actual practice, this […]
Recently, I realized that I wasn’t as hands-on with microservices as I needed to be, so over the weekend, I created a web app that uses microservices to get a better feel for this system architecture paradigm. The app does a pretty simple task: given a bunch of URLs of online job postings, it fetches […]
May 2018
There are lots of copies of the GDPR on the Web (well, there are a few) but none with a table of contents and internal references that are internally hyperlinked. So I made one. If you like it, enjoy! If not, feel free to politely let me know what could be improved.
The immediate reaction of a lot of cyber-security professionals to the news that Microsoft Excel would support Javascript was, “What could go wrong.” The clear implication being that a lot could go wrong, that this is creating a lot of risk and that this was an unnecessary step. It is true, including Javascript support in […]
May 2018
The security dashboard of the world’s most popular sites, SecureTheWeb.info, uses data collected by a Python script that visits the sites. This Python script in turn relies on the underlying OpenSSL implementation on the computer where it is running. This is a limitation because the script cannot check for protocols that Python or OpenSSL don’t […]
So you are traveling to the US, and you’re wondering about the potential search of your electronic devices by Customs and Border Patrol when you enter. You have reason to be concerned. CBP has been going through people’s devices with no declared probable cause, and the numbers have been going up, from 0.002% of all […]
Jan 2017
I’ve been collecting PayPal phishing emails for a while, here are some of them.
Ads on mobile news sites can be ugly and annoying. Just look at these examples. With iOS 9 and a recent enough iPhone you can install ad blockers. I expect that a similar solution is available for Android. I have no idea about Windows phone users. However, many sites now detect ad blockers and prevent […]
Feb 2016
While teaching a course on data journalism I came across Google Fusion Tables. It’s not quite Excel or Google Sheets, in some ways it’s more, but it lacks many, many functions. It seems good for mapping, but you have to bring your data and shape files. Here is a sample of what it does.