Wednesday, 13th August 2008
The statement that the password anti-pattern "teaches users to be phished" should be rephrased "has taught users to be phished"
— Me, on Twitter
Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google. I missed this story last year—the change was announced by Matt Cutts at WordCamp 2007.
Keyczar (via) New open source cryptography toolkit from Google, designed to get algorithm selection, key rotation and versioning right so you don’t have to. Java and Python versions are available; the Python version depends on PyCrypto.
Around the world and back again. Flickr are using data from OpenStreetMap to provide street-level detail of Beijing for the Olympics.