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Thursday Threads: Unprotected Social Media Sites, Value of Free, and Real Life Net Neutrality
This week's Thursday Threads looks at a big hole in the security model of most internet sites that require you to log into them with a username and password plus a pair of stories about "big media" battles.
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Thursday Threads: Technical Debt, QR Codes in National Parks, WebP Image Format, and SSL Cautions
Week #2 of this new project to highlight interesting tidbits from the previous seven days. Well, things that were interesting to me that I hope will be interesting to DLTJ readers. Time will tell.
Technical Debt: A Perspective for Managers
What is Technical Debt? It’s all “those internal things …
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SSL for WordPress Admin and the Problem with XMLHttpRequest
Note! The updates to SSL handling in WordPress version 2.6 handle the problem of SSL-encrypted admin sessions in a much less hackish sort of way. It doesn't make any sense to use this plugin with WordPress version 2.6 when you can simply adddefine(’FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true);to your …Posted on· 3 minutes reading time -
OpenLDAP with a Go Daddy "Turbo SSL Secure Certificate"
Okay -- this seemed like a lot harder than it should have been. At the very least, it took piecing together information from a number of places in order to make it happen. The goal is to use a Go Daddy Turbo SSL Secure Certificate (the $19.95/year one) to …
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