description: China’s long-brewing crisis.

description: There’s a worrying trend in modern web development, where developers are throwing away decades of carefully wrought systems for a bit of perceived convenience. Tools such as Tailwind CSS seem to be spreading like wildfire, with very few people ever willing to acknowledge the regression they bring to our field. And I’m getting tired of it

description: Showers are a part of my daily routine. And I’ve been putting up with a lousy shower head for too long. But I’ve finally found a new one, one that I like.

description: Alin Panaitiu’s notes and ramblings: short-form content on macOS apps, music and computers in general

description: An unhinged polemic

description: Well, it finally happened to me. I was blocked out of a website I use for work because of Cloudflare. And I have no idea if or when I’ll be…

description: In this report, we analyze the Windows, Android, and iOS versions of Tencent’s Sogou Input Method, the most popular Chinese-language input method in China. Our analysis found serious vulnerabilities in the app’s custom encryption system and how it encrypts sensitive data. These vulnerabilities could allow a network eavesdropper to decrypt sensitive communications sent by the app, including revealing all keystrokes being typed by the user. Following our disclosure of these vulnerabilities, Sogou released updated versions of the app that identified all of the issues we disclosed.