nanocompendium

Most popular web-based businesses are deflationary. They substitute expensive forms of content consumption for cheap ones, they make it logistically easier to deliver discounts to people who will respond to them, and they create numerous financially cheap forms of social status. As more activity moves on to the web, the main effect on the economy will be broadly lower prices and less need for employment.

— The Growth of the Internet and the Happy Recession

(Source: digital-dd.com)

So, how easy is it to breach the site itself and render the promise a joke? Well, this is the annoying part. Security practices in the HTTP world today are so woeful that even if you know a lot, and even if you try hard to make it secure, the current practices are terrifically hard to secure. Basically, complexity is the enemy of security, and complexity is too high in the world of websites & browsers.

— EV’s green cert is breached (of course) (SNAFU)