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We're Deprecating HTTP And It's Going To Be Okay
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Mozilla recently announced their intent to deprecate the insecure HTTP protocol in Firefox. In practice, they plan to do this by gradually removing the ability for HTTP websites to use various web features. They're joined by the Chrome security team, which declared something similar in December.
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Open Data Needs HTTPS Too
Recently, Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the web and President of the Open Data Institute ) informally asked a W3C working group to consider rel… -
Slack is now forcing users into arbitration and that is terrible
Slack , a young and wildly successful team chat and collaboration service, updated its TOS and Privacy P… -
Get a U2F key right now and log into stuff with it
This is a stock photo, but it's the same model I own.Since posting this, Dropbox and GitHub have both added … -
Quora Keeps the World's Knowledge For Itself
The Stockholm Public Library's Wall of Knowledge. I recently made the mistake of answering a question on Quora: "What is it … -
Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1
Hilbert map of hashing algorithms, by Ian Boyd Most of the secure web is using an insecure algorithm, and Google's just decl… -
Following the FISA Court: New Website, New Data
Short version : The FISA Court has a new website , and @FISACourt is way smarter because I'm turning their entire docket … -
GitHub Pages Now (Sorta) Supports HTTPS, So Use It
Recently, GitHub Pages began supporting HTTPS for *.github.io domains, like this one and this one . In my opinion, thi… -
A Simple Filter for GitHub Notifications
GitHub's notification system is a thing of beauty, and it's led me to "watch" more projects. When you watch something on GitHub … -
Open Data Day DC, 2014
I got to help organize Open Data Day here in DC again for 2014, alongside Josh Tauberer , Kat Townsend , Sam Lee , and Julia Bezgacheva . Open Dat… -
isitchristmas.com 2013, More and Better
I don't pretend to understand why isitchristmas.com gets such an indefensible amount of traffic. But for as long as I have this g… -
How to Hack the Developer Console to be Needlessly Interactive
A stray interaction with Garrett Miller about how he put a colorful easter egg in the developer console fo… -
Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free
From now on, you should see a delightful lock next to https://konklone.com in your browser's URL bar, because I've switched this site to us… -
The Door to the FISA Court
Nobody will actually tell you where the door to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — also known as the "FISA Court" — is. It's unders… -
Following the FISA Court, the (Advanced) Internet Way
A couple weeks ago, I created @FISACourt , a Twitter account that automatically posts whenever the Foreign Intellig… -
Take Control of Your Email Address
The Internet's not in a great place , and neither are we. We've learned to depend more on fewer companies, and so we've given up much … -
Following the FISA Court, the Internet Way
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, responsible for overseeing the US government's foreign surveillance activities vi… -
Phoenix Has Forced Me To Come To Terms With Myself
I recently got a chance to go speak to a group of Arizona law librarians about legal informatics! I do not think that … -
Open Data Day DC, 2013
A couple Saturdays ago, I helped Josh Tauberer and a few others organize a hackathon for Open Data Day , here in DC. Open Data Day is an internati… -
Aaron Swartz
I don't know that I have it in me to offer something new and deep on the awful death of Aaron Swartz on Friday. Aaron was known for, among other things , do… -
isitchristmas.com 2012
isitchristmas.com continues to get an irrational amount of traffic, so I put an irrational amount of work into it this year. If you visit in Chrom… -
Sunlight Vanguard
Recently, I created and launched a new website for the Sunlight Foundation called Scout . It's the product I'm the most proud of building in my 3 years…