So you want to work in security (but are too lazy to read Parisa's excellent essay)

If you have not seen it yet, Parisa Tabriz penned a lengthy and insightful post about her experiences on what it takes to succeed in the field of information security.My own experiences align pretty closely with Parisa's take, so if you are making your first steps down this path, I strongly urge you...

CSS mix-blend-mode is bad for your browsing history

Up until mid-2010, any rogue website could get a good sense of your browsing habits by specifying a distinctive :visited CSS pseudo-class for any links on the page, rendering thousands of interesting URLs off-screen, and then calling the getComputedStyle API to figure out which pages appear in your...