#371 How To Become A Hacker
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A lot of posts about programming and related topics are rallying cries, trying to persuade you to adopt a specific programming language, framework, operating system, or specific way of doing things. This post does less of that and while I make some suggestions, it’s a more tempered view.
Web Security 101: Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
A hands-on beginner's guide to what XSS attacks are and how to prevent them.
A Guide to Threat Modelling for Developers
This article provides clear and simple steps to help teams that want to adopt threat modelling. Threat modelling is a risk-based approach to designing secure systems. It is based on identifying threats in order to develop mitigations to them. With cyber security risk increasing and enterprises becoming more aware of their liabilities, software development teams need effective ways to build security into software.
The Unix philosophy lays emphasis on building software that is simple and extensible. Each piece of software must do one thing and do it well. And that software should be able to work with other programs through a common interface – a text stream. This is one of the core philosophies of Unix which makes it so powerful and intuitive to use.
The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk
Smalltalk actually had a surge of commercial popularity in the first half of the 1990s but that interest evaporated almost instantaneously in 1996. Most of the Gilad’s article consists of his speculations on why that happened.
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