ATTN Google+ Users: Your Photos Contain Location Data

One of Google+’s much touted features is its ability to automatically slurp photos off of your mobile phone. I’m a big fan of this functionality. It represents a marked improvement in user experience over Facebook. It’s silly that we waste so much time dragging and dropping image files. Before taking advantage of automatic uploads, users [...]

Finding 0-day Vulnerabilities in the Ghetto

The woeful security practices of many open source PHP applications constitute a hallmark of the so-called ghetto. I know because I’ve introduced a handful of embarrassing security holes in past open source contributions. These simple mistakes are symptoms highlightling the conditions conducive to large amounts of unknown vulnerabilities. I conjecture that small PHP applications are the easiest [...]