HTTP cookies, or how not to design protocols

For as long as I remember, HTTP cookies have been vilified as a grave threat to the privacy of online browsing; wrongly so . That said, the ...

Attack of the monster frames (a mini-retrospective)

Some 15 years ago, the introduction of HTML frames caused a significant uproar in the (still young) web development community. The outraged...

Aksjeskatt

Spekulanter har aldri vært populære. Å skattelegge dem er derfor en åpenbar stemmesanker for enhver politiker. Flere regjeringer, inkludert ...

Off-topic: concise electronics for geeks

I always find it disappointing that so many of my extremely bright peers have only a vague idea about the inner workings of electronic circu...