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2011

National politics of snoopiness vs corporate ethic of not being evil aren’t directly compatible, and the solution here only works because (let’s face it) Tunisia is not a rising economic force. If you’re selling ads in China, you don’t get to pretend that the Great Firewall of China is a security issue.

Nat Torkington

# 24th January 2011, 6:11 pm / china, security, tunisia, recovered, nat-torkington

2008

Dangers of remote Javascript. Perl.com got hit by a JavaScript porn redirect when the domain of one of their advertisers expired and was bought by a porn company. Nat Torkington suggests keeping track of the expiration dates on any third party domains that are serving JavaScript on your site.

# 20th January 2008, 9:49 am / domains, javascript, nat-torkington, oreilly, perldotcom, security, xss