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Matasano Security - Matasano Web Security Assessments for Enterprises
Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, "JAVASCRIPT CRYPTOGRAPHY"?
We mean attempts to implement security features in browsers using cryptographic algoritms implemented in whole or in part in Javascript.
You may now be asking yourself, "What about Node.js? What about non-browser Javascript?". Non-browser Javascript cryptography is perilous, but not doomed. For the rest of this document, we're referring to browser Javascript when we discuss Javascript cryptography.
WHY DOES BROWSER CRYPTOGRAPHY MATTER?
The web hosts most of the world's new crypto functionality. A significant portion of that crypto has been implemented in Javascript, and is thus doomed. This is an issue worth discussing. -
All Together Now - NYTimes.com
HOLD onto your hats and your wallets. Since the end of the cold war, the global system has been held together to a large degree by four critical ruling bargains. Today all four are coming unstuck at once and will need to be rebuilt. Whether and how that rebuilding happens — beginning in the U.S. — will determine a lot about what’s in your wallet and whether your hat flies off.
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Drugs Posing as Supplementals May Contain Dangerous Ingredients - NYTimes.com
DR. PIETER COHEN is scanning the shelves inside a shop in Chinatown here when something familiar — and potentially dangerous — catches his eye.
“What’s that yellow box, behind the other one?” Dr. Cohen asks the clerk.
It is Pai You Guo, a supposedly natural weight-loss supplement from China that, according to federal authorities, has tested positive in the past for containing two hazardous drugs, including a suspected carcinogen. The product was recalled in 2009. One of Dr. Cohen’s patients in the Boston area ended up in the hospital last year with a range of ailments after taking Pai You Guo, a brand-name that, loosely translated from Chinese, means “the fruit that eliminates fat.” -
Does America Need Manufacturing? - NYTimes.com
You can drive almost anywhere in the state of Michigan — pick a point at random and start moving — and you will soon come upon the wreckage of American industry. If you happen to be driving on the outer edge of Midland, you’ll also come upon a cavern of steel beams and ductwork, 400,000 square feet in all. When this plant, which is being constructed by Dow Kokam, a new venture partly owned by Dow Chemical, is up and running early next year, it will produce hundreds of thousands of advanced lithium-ion battery cells for hybrid and electric cars. Just as important, it will provide about 350 jobs in a state with one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates.
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Reply All - The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy - NYTimes.com
I can’t help worrying that such a public bemoaning of what should be a private decision serves only to give ammunition to those who would take away a woman’s right to a safe, legal abortion.
Monday, August 29, 2011
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